Google Maps, without opening Google Maps.
Read-only places and routes: where somewhere is, what is near it, how long the trip takes, what time zone it is in.
In your channel
Ask Ray for something in Google Maps and it posts this card in the thread. One click, and the task you asked for carries on where it left off.
What Ray can and cannot do in Google Maps
Reading is free, because reading changes nothing. Everything that writes waits for you. The rest is not on Ray’s list.
Runs on its own
What Ray reads in Google Maps
- Compute route matrix
- Geocoding api
- Get place details
- Get route
- Get time zone
- Nearby search
- Text search
Reading changes nothing, so Ray never stops to ask whether it may look something up.
Asks first, every time
What Ray answers with
Ray reads Google Maps and answers from it in the thread. Writing to Google Maps is not switched on yet, so there is nothing here to approve.
How Ray works with Google Maps
No workflow to build, and nothing to maintain when the work changes.
- 01
Connect Google Maps
One click, right where you asked. Ray posts a connect card, you authorise Google Maps with your own account, and the work you asked for picks up where it left off.
- 02
Ask in plain words
In the conversation you were already having. Nothing to build, no trigger to map, no tab to open.
- 03
Ray answers where you asked
Ray only reads Google Maps, so there is nothing here to approve. It looks up what it needs and replies in the thread.
Priya
@Ray the checkout bug is back. Take a look in Google Maps, and tell Dana it is being looked at.
Ray
Checked Google Maps. The spec was last edited on Tuesday and the open question about refunds is still unanswered.
What does connecting Google Maps to Ray actually do?
Ray is an AI teammate that works in your team chat, on Slack today. Connect Google Maps and it can do the Google Maps part of a request without anyone leaving the conversation: read what it needs, draft the change, and post it for approval before anything is written.
It is not a workflow builder. There is no trigger to configure and no automation to repair when your process shifts. You describe the outcome in the thread and Ray picks the actions, including actions in your other connected tools when the request spans more than one.
Every person on the team connects their own Google Maps account, so Ray can only reach what that person can already reach, and the history in Google Maps shows who actually asked.
Security and permissions
- You authorise Google Maps on its own login screen. Your password never passes through Ray.
- Writes are gated in the execution path, not by a prompt. There is no setting that grants blanket approval.
- Each workspace is isolated at the database level, and that isolation is tested by trying to break it.
- Disconnect Google Maps in a message, or uninstall Ray and every connection it held is revoked.
More dev & deploys integrations
Ray uses them together in a single run when a request spans more than one.
Put Ray to work in Google Maps.
Free to start, no credit card, and it asks before it acts.