--- title: Google Maps API Integration on Truto slug: googlemaps category: Default canonical: "https://truto.one/integrations/detail/googlemaps/" --- # Google Maps API Integration on Truto **Category:** Default **Status:** Beta ## MCP-ready AI tools Truto exposes 3 tools for Google Maps that AI agents can call directly. - **google_maps_address_validation_validate_address** — Validate a postal address using Google Maps Address Validation API. Returns the validation result including verdict flags, the post-processed address with components, geocode with coordinates and place ID, deliverability metadata, and USPS data for US/PR addresses. Required: address (with addressLines). - **google_maps_address_validation_provide_validation_feedback** — Provide feedback about the outcome of a sequence of address validation attempts in Google Maps Address Validation API. This should be the last call made after a sequence of validation calls for the same address, and should be called once the transaction is concluded. Returns an empty 204 response on success. Required: conclusion, responseId. - **google_maps_routes_compute_routes** — Compute routes between an origin and a destination using the Google Routes API. Returns: duration, distanceMeters, polyline, legs, warnings, routeLabels. Required in body: origin, destination. Select fields with field_mask. ## How it works 1. **Link your customer's Google Maps account.** Use Truto's frontend SDK; we handle every OAuth and API key flow so you don't need to create the OAuth app. 2. **Authentication is automatic.** Truto refreshes tokens, stores credentials securely, and injects them into every API request. 3. **Call Truto's API to reach Google Maps.** The Proxy API is a 1-to-1 mapping of the Google Maps API. 4. **Get a unified response format.** Every response uses a single shape, with cursor-based pagination and data in the `result` field. ## Use cases - **Validate shipping addresses before fulfillment** — E-commerce and logistics SaaS platforms can offer their merchants automatic address validation at checkout or before dispatch, catching non-deliverable addresses and missing suite numbers before they turn into carrier chargebacks. - **Power intelligent technician dispatch** — Field service management platforms can compute traffic-aware routes between technicians and job sites, letting dispatchers assign the closest available resource and cut down on windshield time and fuel costs. - **Generate accurate ETAs for logistics workflows** — Delivery and fleet management SaaS products can surface real-time distance, duration, and route polylines to drivers and dispatchers, improving SLA reliability and customer-facing delivery estimates. - **Cleanse and standardize CRM address data** — CRMs and sales tools can validate customer addresses on record creation, storing standardized components and Place IDs so downstream reporting, territory mapping, and mailings all run against clean data. - **Close the loop on address validation quality** — SaaS platforms can report back on validation outcomes to Google, improving future validation accuracy for their end-users while meeting Google Maps Platform's terms for validation feedback. ## What you can build - **Address validation at checkout** — Validate raw address strings via the Address Validation API and return standardized components, geocodes, and deliverability verdicts before the order is committed. - **Deliverability verdict flags in your admin UI** — Surface Google's verdict fields — like missing subpremise, unconfirmed components, or USPS deliverability — as inline warnings so ops teams can fix bad addresses before they ship. - **Multi-stop route computation for dispatch boards** — Call Compute Routes with origin, destination, and intermediate waypoints to return distanceMeters, duration, and encoded polylines you can render directly on your map view. - **Traffic-aware ETA engine** — Use Compute Routes with live traffic to generate driver ETAs and refresh them on demand from your dispatch or customer-facing tracking views. - **Validation feedback pipeline** — Send Provide Validation Feedback calls after your users confirm or correct a validated address, so the accuracy of subsequent lookups improves over time. - **Route-based billing and payroll** — Use the distanceMeters returned by Compute Routes to power mileage reimbursement, driver compensation, or per-mile customer billing directly inside your product. ## FAQs ### How does authentication to Google Maps Platform work through Truto? Google Maps Platform uses API keys scoped to specific APIs and, optionally, referrer or IP restrictions. Truto manages the credential storage and injection for each of your end-users' connected accounts, so you don't have to build key management yourself. ### Which Google Maps operations are available today? Truto currently exposes Address Validation (validate address and provide validation feedback) and the Routes API (compute routes). Additional Google Maps Platform endpoints — such as Places or Geocoding — can be added on request. ### Is there a unified API for maps or location data? Not today. Google Maps is available as a direct integration through Truto's tool interface. If you need a normalized schema across multiple mapping or geocoding providers, reach out and we can prioritize a unified location API. ### What data does the Address Validation tool return? It returns standardized address components, geocoded latitude/longitude, a Place ID, and verdict metadata such as USPS deliverability flags (for US and PR addresses), unconfirmed components, and missing subpremise indicators. ### Why should I call Provide Validation Feedback? Google's terms for the Address Validation API expect you to report back the final outcome of a validated address (e.g., whether it was ultimately used). Truto exposes this as a first-class tool so you can close the loop programmatically after your users confirm an address. ### How are rate limits and quotas handled? Google Maps Platform enforces per-project QPS limits and daily quotas that are billed per request. Truto passes calls through using your end-user's credentials, so quotas and billing sit with the account owner. You can layer your own rate limiting on top via Truto if needed.