Everything that happened at Locate, Day 1

Spoiler alert: it was a lot

By: Rachel Holm

We’ve got a lot to get through in this day one recap, so this update is going to be light on the words, and heavy with the pictures.

1,400 developers, cartographers, data visualizers, technologists, and media navigated their way up the Embarcadero to Pier 27 to explore the edges of location tech with us.

Here’s what went down on day one of Locate.

Every Product Announcement

• The Vision SDK: With our vision SDK, we’re bridging the phone, the camera, and the automobile to give developers total control over the driving experience.
• Our Apple SceneKit SDK + React Native AR SDK: The new React Native AR SDK enables developers to quickly iterate and build cross-platform. With the new SceneKit SDK, iOS developers can use Apple’s native toolkit to build lightweight and deeply-integrated AR experiences.
• Mapbox + kepler.gl: We’re partnering with Uber to bring advanced data visualization to our developer community. Soon, you’ll be able to add layers like arcs and hexbins from kepler.gl to your maps with our GL Custom Layers API (launching this summer).
• New Foursquare POIs: We are adding 105 million places to the map this year, using the freshest place data from one of our earliest partners: Foursquare. From restaurants and bars to shops, museums, and hotels — all the places on our map are about to be updated and will be available via search.

Every partnership announcement

• Mobileye and our HD Vector Maps: Our first HD Vector Maps customer is Mobileye. Together, we are shipping with a major European automaker next year.
• Microsoft Azure and the Vision SDK: Our newly announced Vision SDK integrates with the Microsoft Azure IoT platform.
• Arm and the Vision SDK: Bringing faster machine learning to billions of Arm enabled edge devices with the Vision SDK
• Sumologic integrated Mapbox and Neustar into their core business intelligence tools and dashboards to help customers better measure against KPIs and discover anomalous activity

Best of Twitter

This Keep treadmill let's you run various courses and speed regulate to the rhythm of your music and let's you run "with" other friends on a mapped course thanks to integration with @Mapbox - what do you think @kLbuchner ? 😉 office productivity tool

 — @AndreaFunsten

@NellePierson sharing her enthusiasm for @jumpbikes and @Mapbox at #ExploreLocate #bikeshare #maps @Uber

 — @mark_safran

@ericg and @chr1sa talking about the history of drones, self-driving DIY robocars at @Mapbox #explorelocate

 — @MrJefe72

Got a wood luggage tag laser engraved by @glowforge @ @Mapbox #exploreLocate

 — @clementsauvage

Had a great time today connecting with fellow map geeks at Locate - @mapbox's first user conference! For those of you heading to Locate tomorrow, join us for a special Mapping Challenge for a chance to win a @suunto Ambit3 Watch! #exploreLocate #rebellerally #jointheRebelle

 — @rebellerally

Interesting old-time analog data visualization from @dasulit's talk on Data Driven Map styling at @Mapbox Locate #ExploreLocate

 — @eoneil83

Nice photo of the @mapbox team at #explorelocate

 — @ideaOwl

If we missed you on day one, tweet @mapbox with #explorelocate to make it on to tomorrow’s “best of list”.

Rachel Holm

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