Focus: Personalized routing via:

1. Transit History (timeline)
2. Conversational Queries (gemini chat)

Timeline [low effort]

timeline tracks history of user’s transit and includes diff forms of transit like driving, walking

→ use existing tech within the app, just adjust UI to make it more usable for users.

• Increase user discoverability of
  • timeline features
  • how to toggle opt in for timeline data used for gmaps performance

****** NOTE:***

Timeline has been reduced to local (device specific) on mobile only. Without server storage at Google, Google does not need to respond to due to geofence warrants requested by authorities.

Deadline for users to port data: 9 June 2025

https://9to5google.com/2024/12/11/google-maps-on-device-timeline/#:~:text=Google Maps is switching to,to respond to geofence warrants

Conversational Routing [mid effort]

Oct 2024 Gemini x Google Maps already has conversational features.

→ leverage existing tech, adapt backend and UI for routing

• Refer to conversational AI for places of interest in latest Gemini update (Oct 2024)
• Refer to driving alerts for subway alerts
• Refer to Meta AI chat and chatGPT sidebar for chat history for user conversations with AI agents