An advanced location and routing integration that brings the full power of the Google Maps and Places APIs directly to your AI coding agents.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install google-maps-places
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install google-maps-places using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Google Maps & Places?
The Google Maps & Places integration is a robust, production-ready toolset designed to connect your AI agent directly to Google Maps, Geocoding, Directions, and Places APIs through ClawLink managed credentials. Instead of manually configuring developer keys or dealing with complicated OAuth setups, this integration enables seamless location searching, address coordination, route planning, and spatial intelligence natively within your workspace.
By leveraging this capability among your available Openclaw Skills, developers can build agents capable of executing complex geographic queries, parsing local business data, calculating multi-stop travel routes, and handling time-zone or elevation lookups effortlessly. All authentication is managed securely out-of-band by ClawLink, allowing you to focus on building features rather than API integrations.
Google Maps & Places Use Cases
- Local Business Discovery: Empower your agent to search and parse nearby restaurants, coffee shops, or services based on geographical coordinates or query parameters.
- Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding: Easily translate human-readable addresses to latitude/longitude coordinates and vice versa during automated tasks.
- Logistics & Multi-Stop Routing: Build shipping, delivery, or travel planning schedules using advanced route mapping and distance matrix APIs.
- Geographic Context Enrichment: Enhance user-provided spatial datasets with accurate time zone information, elevation metrics, and snapped road coordinates using these custom Openclaw Skills.
How Google Maps & Places Works
- Installation and Configuration: The developer installs the ClawLink plugin via the OpenClaw command-line interface and registers the approved tools.
- Device Pairing: The user pairs their local workspace with their ClawLink dashboard securely using device authentication flows.
- Account Connection: The developer enables Google Maps within the web dashboard to grant secure proxy access without exposing hardcoded credentials.
- Parameter Alignment & Validation: The agent uses specialized Openclaw Skills to dynamically match requests with available Google Maps API endpoints.
- Structured Query Execution: The plugin routes queries dynamically, performs the lookup, handles safety/write constraints, and returns a sanitized JSON response.
Google Maps & Places Setup
To deploy this tool integration, you must install the ClawLink plugin and authorize access. Follow these steps:
- Install the verified ClawLink plugin from ClawHub:
openclaw plugins install clawhub:clawlink-plugin
openclaw config set tools.alsoAllow '["clawlink-plugin"]' --strict-json
openclaw gateway restart
- Request a new session by sending
/newas a standalone message inside your workspace, then execute the pairing flow:
# Note: Execute this inside your chat environment to pair the device
clawlink_begin_pairing
- Navigate to https://claw-link.dev/dashboard?add=google-maps, link your Google account, and confirm connection status using:
clawlink_list_integrations
Once complete, these Openclaw Skills will be fully active and ready to process spatial queries in your workspace.
Google Maps & Places Data Schema & Taxonomy
The integration provides structured access to Google Maps telemetry and spatial datasets. It maps API operations into clean JSON responses categorizing the payload structures:
Core Schema Categories
| Tool Category | Core Methods | Data Returned | Security Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place Search | googlemaps_search_places, googlemaps_nearby_search |
Place IDs, addresses, rating, business details | Read-Only |
| Geocoding | googlemaps_geocode, googlemaps_reverse_geocode |
Latitude/Longitude, formatted address, postal codes | Read-Only |
| Routing | googlemaps_directions, googlemaps_distance_matrix |
Step-by-step navigation paths, duration, traffic data | Read-Only |
| Terrain & Zone | googlemaps_elevation, googlemaps_timezone |
Altitude values, time zone offsets, DST status | Read-Only |
All tools return structured JSON payloads directly to the calling agent, eliminating manually configured parsing regex or customized formatting code.
Google Maps & Places Advanced Features
- Credential-Free Configuration: Zero environment variable leaks. ClawLink completely abstracts API token rotation and rate limit handling.
- Multi-Destination Route Matrices: Simultaneously evaluate complex travel networks across multiple origins and destinations to optimize delivery paths.
- Dynamic Address Correction: Seamlessly fall back from geocoding to autocomplete endpoints to fix typo-prone address entries dynamically.
- Road Snapping API Integration: Utilize snapped GPS routing coordinates to convert raw tracker paths to precise road segments.
- Write Confirmation Protection: Advanced write and change operations feature a pre-execution verification loop ensuring high accuracy and preventing automated API-limit exhaustion in critical Openclaw Skills workflows.
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