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Connect Google Maps to WhatsApp with an AI agent
Flann is an AI agent your business talks to on WhatsApp. Connect Google Maps once, then ask Flann to look things up in it or get work done in it, by text or voice note. Devices, logins, servers and the small apps your team built all leave a trail in Google Maps. Flann can read that trail for you. Ask by text or voice note and the answer comes in sentences, not error codes.
20 actions in Google Maps. 18 only look things up, and 2 create, update, send or delete. You connect with a one-click sign-in.
What you can ask Flann to do in Google Maps
Send any of these on WhatsApp, in your own words. Flann finds the right Google Maps action and fills in the details from the conversation.
“Look up the place photo in Google Maps.”
“Look up the aerial video in Google Maps.”
“Look up the time zone in Google Maps.”
“Create a tiles session in Google Maps.”
Step by step: Google Maps jobs you can hand to Flann
Each step below names the Google Maps action Flann actually runs.
Get answers about your aerial videos
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our aerial videos in Google Maps?”
- Flann runs
Lookup Aerial Videoin Google Maps and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Google Maps is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your places from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our places in Google Maps stand.”
- Flann runs
Get Place Detailsin Google Maps and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Google Maps is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Get answers about your routes
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our routes in Google Maps?”
- Flann runs
Get Routein Google Maps and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Google Maps is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Repetitive Google Maps work Flann takes off your plate
These are the jobs that come back every day or every week. Message Flann instead, and keep the decisions for yourself.
Overnight problems, summarised
Today
Errors build up overnight. Nobody reads the logs until something breaks in front of a customer.
With Flann
“Anything go wrong overnight on our systems?”
Flann reads the overnight errors and incidents in Google Maps, groups the repeats and ranks what is left by how much it affects customers. You get the few things worth knowing. Nothing is changed; this is a report.
What you stop doing: No more scrolling through logs you were never meant to read.
Passing a fault to the right person
Today
When something breaks, you forward a screenshot to your developer with a vague description. They then ask the questions you could not answer.
With Flann
“Send Dan the details of this error so he can look at it.”
Flann gathers what Dan will need from Google Maps: when the error started, how often it happens and which part of the system is affected. It drafts a clear message to him with those facts.
What you stop doing: Your role as messenger between customers and developer comes to an end.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Google Maps
- Search for Google Maps in Flann’s Connectors.
- Sign in to your Google Maps account on the secure page that opens and allow access. There is no developer account or API key to set up.
- Go back to WhatsApp and ask for what you need. Flann chooses the Google Maps action and fills in the details.
Look-ups run as soon as you ask and change nothing in Google Maps. You can disconnect Google Maps from Connectors at any time.
Ways to use Google Maps with Flann
Make a change safely
Tell Flann what to change.
Problems in plain words
Ask what went wrong overnight. Flann reads Google Maps and explains it without the jargon.
Check status from your phone
Ask Flann whether everything is running. It checks Google Maps and answers in the chat.
Doing it yourself, wiring up a rule, or asking an agent: here is how they compare for Google Maps.
| Compare | Google Maps on its ownEvery step is yours | A fixed workflowTriggers built in advance | With FlannThe work comes to your chat |
|---|---|---|---|
| How you ask | Log in and click through the screens | Only what was wired up in advance | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up | By hand, screen by screen | Only the look-ups someone built | 18 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Creating and updating | Typed in by hand | Run unchecked once built | 2 changes, made from a message |
| Google Maps records | All of them, one screen at a time | Only the ones you wire up | 8 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Someone builds and maintains each flow | One sign-in to Google Maps |
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Everything Flann can do in Google Maps
The full list of Google Maps actions available to Flann once you connect it.
Looks up 18
- Autocomplete Place Predictions
- Compute Route Matrix
- Embed Google Map
- Geocode Address With Query
- Geocode Place by ID
- Geocoding API
- Get Place Details
- Get Place Photo
- Get Time Zone
- Reverse Geocode Location
- Text Search
- Geocode Destinations
- Geolocate Device
- Get 2D Map Tile
- Get 3D Tiles Root
- Get Route
- Lookup Aerial Video
- Nearby search
Changes 2
- Render Aerial Video
- Create Tiles Session
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How does Flann connect to Google Maps?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Google Maps and sign in to your Google Maps account on a secure page. There is no developer account or API key to set up. Once it is connected, Flann can use 20 actions in Google Maps.
Can I use Google Maps from WhatsApp?
Yes. You talk to Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and Flann works in Google Maps for you. You do not need to open Google Maps.
Is Google Maps included in my Flann plan?
Yes. Every Flann plan includes every app, Google Maps included.