{"id":23872,"date":"2026-04-22T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23872"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:30:17","slug":"scout-with-maps-animate-with-veo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/22\/scout-with-maps-animate-with-veo\/","title":{"rendered":"Scout with Maps, animate with Veo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Check out this super cool mashup between Google Maps &amp; my new product, Veo (video generation):<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">280 billion Street View images + generative AI = Maps Imagery Grounding.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoogleCloudNext?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GoogleCloudNext<\/a>, we announced that brands can now generate beautiful AI visuals, all anchored in Street View.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when storyboarding, filmmakers can visualize a scene \u2013 like a spaceship taking\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/epwc0GvAm2\">pic.twitter.com\/epwc0GvAm2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miriam Daniel (@miriamkdaniel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/miriamkdaniel\/status\/2047025010502779135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The team <a href=\"https:\/\/mapsplatform.google.com\/resources\/blog\/three-new-ways-to-build-with-real-world-imagery-and-ai\/\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/mapsplatform.google.com\/resources\/blog\/powering-the-next-era-of-agentic-experiences-announcing-new-grounding-capabilities\/\">Maps Imagery Grounding<\/a>, a film studio can use a laptop to quickly visualize a scene at a specific place, like Washington Square Park in New York City\u2014before scouts ever set foot on set. It\u2019s easy to use: just type a prompt like \u201cgenerate an image of a futuristic spaceship hovering in front of the Washington Square Arch\u201d 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\u2014and you can even use\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/products\/ai-machine-learning\/veo-3-1-lite-and-a-new-veo-upscaling-capability-on-vertex-ai\" target=\"_blank\">Veo<\/a>\u00a0to animate the scene.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this super cool mashup between Google Maps &amp; 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 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23873,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872\/revisions\/23873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}