What problem does it solve?
This Skill removes the friction of manually looking up places, coordinates, routes, and local services by turning natural language location questions into accurate map data.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding: Convert place names into coordinates or coordinates into a readable address.
- Nearby Place Search: Find restaurants, hotels, hospitals, transit stops, and many other points of interest around a location or map pin.
- Routing and Directions: Calculate driving, walking, or cycling distance, travel time, and turn-by-turn steps between two places.
- Area and Bounding Box Search: Discover POIs within a named region or custom rectangle for planning, scouting, or analysis.
- Use Case: A user sends a location pin and asks for nearby cafes, then wants the closest route to one of them and a map link to open it instantly.
Quick Start
Use the maps skill to look up nearby pharmacies around the user's location and return the top results with distances and clickable map links.