Check out this super cool mashup between Google Maps & my new product, Veo (video generation):
280 billion Street View images + generative AI = Maps Imagery Grounding.
At #GoogleCloudNext, we announced that brands can now generate beautiful AI visuals, all anchored in Street View.
For example, when storyboarding, filmmakers can visualize a scene – like a spaceship taking… pic.twitter.com/epwc0GvAm2
— Miriam Daniel (@miriamkdaniel) April 22, 2026
The team writes,
With Maps Imagery Grounding, a film studio can use a laptop to quickly visualize a scene at a specific place, like Washington Square Park in New York City—before scouts ever set foot on set. It’s easy to use: just type a prompt like “generate an image of a futuristic spaceship hovering in front of the Washington Square Arch” into the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and enable grounding with Google Maps Imagery in settings. In seconds, you can storyboard your creative vision with an accurate image—and you can even use Veo to animate the scene.