Google Maps Platform ImageryBigQueryGemini

Imagery. Google’s continuous survey of your streets, now searchable by AI.

A road sign detected in Street View, beside the Street View frame it came from
Road signThe detected sign, beside the Street View frame it came from.

Knowing what’s out there usually means sending someone to look. We start from Google’s street-level imagery and classify the assets you care about. Then we match them to the records you already hold, so you see what’s changed and where to focus first.

The platform. Street-level assets, detected and ready to query.

Detected road signs listed with asset class, position and detection time

Asset detection

Utility poles and road signs detected across hundreds of billions of Street View images.

A detection record: the image crop beside its Street View frame, with capture time and position

Evidence with every record

Each detection carries its position, capture date and a link to the image, so it can be checked.

Imagery results as a list of views in BigQuery

Delivered to BigQuery

Results arrive as tables in your own Google Cloud database, ready to join with your asset register.

A wide Street View scene around a utility pole on a rural road

Wider views

Fuller scenes around each asset, for looking at surroundings and larger attachments.

Featured

Asset inventory. A record of what’s on your network, with proof.

Many organisations don’t have a clear record of what’s on their streets. We take detections from Google’s Imagery Insights and use Gemini to read what each image shows, such as which services a pole carries, its condition or what a sign says.

Every label links back to the image behind it, and people review the results before anything changes.

Utility poles and road signs mapped across a city, with filters by type, capture year and image count

What we build. Your asset register, checked against ground truth.

What a model read from one pole image, service by service

Asset classification

Gemini models that describe each detection, tuned to the assets you care about.

Model results filtered by service on a map, with items flagged for review

Reviewed results

A workflow so your people confirm the model’s reading before you rely on it.

Camera records listed beside their positions on a map

Joined to your register

Detections matched to your records, giving you a list of differences to act on.

A detected utility pole on a map, beside the images it was seen in

Map and image side by side

A viewer that shows each asset on the map beside the image it came from.

Aerial, satellite and LiDAR next. Google is extending the same approach to overhead imagery and laser measurement, for roofs, tree canopy, building heights and clearances.

Tell us which assets matter to you. We’ll show you what the imagery reveals.

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