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Connect ChatWise to Apple Maps

Yes, ChatWise can use Apple Maps. Pomeroy connects ChatWise to Apple Maps on your Mac, so it can find places, get driving or walking directions, and tell you how long a journey should take. The maps actions take place names, never your location.

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What can you ask ChatWise to do in Apple Maps?

  • “How long will it take to drive to Bristol?”
  • “Find a pharmacy near Borough Market.”
  • “How far is the walk from Paddington to Hyde Park?”
  • “Find coffee near King’s Cross and give me phone numbers.”
  • “Directions from Bath to Cardiff, with the turns.”
  • “Is the walk from the Tate Modern to London Bridge under twenty minutes?”

What ChatWise can do in Apple Maps

  • Find places near a named place, with addresses and, where Maps has them, phone numbers and websites.
  • Route between two named places, driving or walking, with the distance and the expected time.

What Pomeroy will not do in Apple Maps

  • Route public transport. Apple does not offer it on a Mac.
  • Use your location. The maps actions take place names only.
  • Book or buy anything.

How to connect chatwise to apple maps

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install ChatWise first if it is not there yet.

  1. 1

    Download Pomeroy and switch on Apple Maps.

    Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. Maps needs no macOS permission prompt. The maps actions take place names, not your location, so there is nothing for macOS to ask about.

  2. 2

    Press Set up beside ChatWise.

    Pomeroy puts the configuration on your clipboard as JSON. In ChatWise, Settings › Tools › + › Import JSON from Clipboard adds it.

  3. 3

    Paste it into ChatWise.

    Paste the configuration into ChatWise › Settings › Tools › + › Import JSON from Clipboard. In ChatWise, Settings › Tools lists Pomeroy. Switch it on for a chat and the tools appear.

  4. 4

    Ask ChatWise something.

    Try “How long will it take to drive to Bristol?” and a real answer comes back.

The configuration, in full

Set up writes it for you. The documentation has the exact text, where it goes, and how to check it worked.

Can ChatWise use Apple Maps?

Yes. Once you switch Maps on in Pomeroy, ChatWise can search for places near a named place and route between two named places, driving or walking, with the distance and the expected time.

Does this share my location?

No. The maps actions take place names, like Borough Market, never coordinates. Pomeroy has a separate Location toggle for the one action that reads where your Mac is, and it stays off unless you switch it on.

Can ChatWise plan a train journey?

No. Apple does not route public transport on a Mac, so Pomeroy offers driving and walking only. For a train journey, ChatWise can still tell you the walking route to the station.

ChatWise does not show Pomeroy's tools.

Then press Set up again in Pomeroy, under Settings › Assistants: every way Pomeroy sets an assistant up is safe to run twice. Then check that the app you asked about is switched on in Pomeroy: an app that is off serves no tools. Pomeroy's menu bar shows whether ChatWise is connected right now.

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Try ChatWise with Apple Maps.

Get 50 actions every week. No Pomeroy account or payment card required. Requires macOS 15 or later.

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