By: Joe Gomez
Is the world changing at a rate that’s outpacing our ability to capture that change? -Young Hahn, Mapbox CTO
Maps used to be built on static data. Not anymore. Maps today are rebuilt every minute based on feedback from millions of anonymous sensors. This is the era of “living maps”, where your users directly influence the performance and intelligence of the map.
Static data models begin to break down when applied to large-scale logistics and automated services, where old data means a bad user experience. A ridesharing company needs to adjust operations in real time as traffic patterns and road infrastructure change. On-demand delivery services need to time pick-ups and drop-offs accurate to the minute. And a live-updating map is critical for autonomous driving, where there is no longer a human buffer between the map and changing conditions on the ground.
At Locate, our two-day user conference May 30–31st, we’re looking at the tooling and challenges of creating living maps.
We’ll talk about how we’re scaling a global network of embedded sensors. Last year, we collected 2.8 trillion location updates, and today we’re collecting over 225 million miles of anonymized telemetry data per day. All of this data feeds back into our maps and navigation, making the applications that rely on them better.
You’ll hear from engineers like Morgan Herlocker, whose team is measuring the accuracy of real-time location data and deriving useable information like traffic, speed profiles, and turn restrictions.
If you think of a single directions request as a stock trade, then on-demand logistics is like high-frequency trading, where you’re taking millions and millions of potential navigation requests and matching them all to come up with the most efficient solution. -Morgan Herlocker, Mapbox Telemetry Lead
Industry leaders like Manik Gupta, VP of Product, Maps & Marketplace at Uber, and Di-Ann Eisnor, Director of Growth at Waze will discuss how live data is changing operations and navigation in the mobility space. Stay tuned as we hear from these speakers and more in the weeks to come.
We’re building the tools now that will capture the change in the world we can’t predict tomorrow. See you at Locate.
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