Introduction

As an active google maps contributor, I find the lack of an intuitive interface to recall places, food etc one have documented rather surprising. So I thought of solving this problem for myself.

Typesense is used to power the RAG pipeline and SerpAPI to fetch the google maps reviews for a contributor. Both combined result in a web service that you can hit to query your reviews using natural language.

I specifically wanted an experience straight from my iPhone so have created two apple shortcuts (one textual and another voice based) to call the web service and get the results.

Google_Maps_Reviews_NL_demo.1.MOV

Requirements

• Node.js
• Docker
• SerpAPI key - To retrieve Google Maps reviews
• OpenAI API key - To generate embeddings & answers
• Google Maps contributor ID - To retrieve Google Maps reviews from a specific contributor

Setup

1. Clone the repository
2. Create a .env file in the root directory with the correct environment variables. See .env.example for reference.
3. Create a typesense-data directory in the root directory.
4. Run docker compose up to start the service.

How to use with Apple shortcuts ?

Google_Maps_Reviews_Apple_shortcuts_setup.1.mov