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ArticleTomTom marks 1.5 billion map updates a month, gets “closer to real-time”
Image: TomTom/BusinesswireTomTom has announced that its changes to its digital maps are now at the level of 1.5 billion updates per month – an average of over 520 updates per second, including altered road junctions, new addresses, geometry and road features. This is said to represent updates to 1.32 ...
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ArticleRenovo and HERE form partnership for open interfaces
Image: HERE Technologies/Renovo AutoMobility software company Renovo and mapping and location services specialist HERE Technologies have formed a partnership to develop and deploy open interfaces for automated vehicles. For highly and fully automated vehicles, these will have open standards for interoperability and data exchange across the transportation ecosystem.The first ...
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ArticleHERE launches new over-the-air tech for connected vehicles, joins OneMap Alliance
Image: HERE TechnologiesHERE Technologies is launching HERE OTA Connect, a new over-the-air technology for secure transfer of data, software and firmware between the cloud and a vehicle. This has been designed to integrate into an OEM’s own back-end and is available as a standalone product, although HERE is to ...
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ArticleBMW i Ventures invests in Mapillary for HD maps and open-source imagery
Swedish start-up Mapillary has built a sharing platform for imagery, map dataBMW’s i Ventures spin-off has invested in Swedish HD mapping provider Mapillary, which has developed a platform utilizing user-generated street-level imagery to produce map data at scale.Images can be uploaded by any device, and data from a range ...
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ArticleHere maps to help Baidu expand outside China
Maps are considered a key building block for autonomous-driving systems (Photo: Here)Here will provide map content to Baidu to help the Chinese internet company grow its mapping business outside its home market.Here already provides content to Baidu Maps' desktop and mobile services in southeast Asia. The new agreement between ...
