TL;DR Google Maps’ Ask Maps gains agentic features: food ordering, hotel booking, event tickets. Google Maps is no longer just giving directions. The company announced on Thursday that Ask Maps, the Gemini-powered conversational feature it launched in March, is gaining agentic capabilities that let it order food, book hotels, and find event tickets. The more significant addition is Personal Intelligence, which connects Ask Maps to a user’s Gmail and Google Calendar. Ask Maps is now doing the same thing inside a navigation app used by over a billion people monthly.