Google is making its Ask Maps feature significantly more useful with a series of new features that will allow you to get things done via conversation. Announced on Thursday, Ask Maps is now capable of taking on agentic, multistep tasks that would normally require manual research and extra time on your part.

Ask Maps was introduced earlier this year with some modest features that let you ask more conversationally for locations without being so rigid in your search. It’s now getting a suite of new capabilities powered by Gemini. For example, you could use Ask Maps to find a well-lit tennis court for playing in the evening, but the new enhancements make it even smarter.

Agentic AI, or AI that can perform tasks on your behalf, has been one of Google’s top priorities, as seen in some of the new features like Gemini Intelligence, which will be found in the next Pixel devices running Android 17 and the upcoming release of its new laptop lineup, Googlebooks.

In addition to the new features, Google is expanding Ask Maps to more countries. It’s now available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan and Mexico, along with 150 additional territories, starting today. While some of the new features are currently available in the US only, others are available in all locations where Ask Maps is supported.

Here’s what’s coming to Ask Maps.

Agentic food ordering

You can now use Ask Maps to order food for you without ever having to look at a menu. For instance, you can now just ask it where to find avocado toast and an oat milk latte, and Ask Maps will get to work. Since it already knows your location, it’ll begin searching for restaurants that carry the items you’re looking for and allow you to choose where to order from.

Once selected, it’ll find and add those items to your cart, then let you check out with just a few taps. Google has partnered with Toast for this new agentic ordering experience, with UberEats to follow in the future.

Find a hotel

Like ordering food, Ask Maps can now also take the heavy lifting out of your hotel search. All you need to do is say what type of hotel you’re looking for, the location and which amenities you want, and Maps will provide you with a list of all hotels that fit your criteria.

Find things to do

If you’re just looking for something fun to do, Ask Maps has you covered here as well. In a live demo, someone asked to find either comedy shows or live music next to where they work. Assuming you’ve set your work location in Google Maps, it has this information to search your specified area without needing a specific address and can provide you with a list of activities that you may want to do and order tickets right from there.

Personal Intelligence

If you allow it, Maps can now access your information, so you don’t have to go back to your Gmail app just to hunt down a specific email for a reservation in Maps. The feature is off by default, but it can pull in relevant information to your conversation with Ask Maps. It’s available starting on Thursday with Gmail, and support for Google Calendar will be available at a later date.

Ask Maps remembers old conversations

Ask Maps will now remember your previous conversations, which could be helpful to recall places you’ve researched before. So if you had Ask Maps pull up a specific restaurant you were researching and you need to try to find it again, you can just ask what restaurants it had suggested to you in the past. It will scour those older conversations and provide you with a list so you don’t have to manually go searching for it yourself. Google says this feature was built with privacy in mind, and you’ll need to have your history settings enabled for the feature to work.

Contribute to Maps conversationally

If you notice that a store’s hours are incorrect or an establishment is now permanently closed, it’s now easier than ever to submit these changes to Google Maps without having to go the typical manual route. Now, you can just pull up Ask Maps and tell it the changes that should be made right in the chat.

As per standard protocols, Ask Maps will submit your contributions for review and approval, which can take a couple of days for the changes to appear in Maps.