By: Ben Levin
We’ve partnered with Zenrin, the leading provider of Japanese map data since 1948, to bring enhanced map data to our services for Japan.
Zenrin has more than 1,000 surveyors and 70 years of experience mapping Japan. Their data covers 99% of all Japanese streets and neighborhoods. This will improve our coverage in Japan of smaller towns, urban streets, alleys, pathways, and addresses with labels and annotations in Japanese and English.
By integrating Zenrin data into our living map platform, we’re able to provide real-time traffic and dynamic change detection in Japan. Every day, we collect over 300 million miles of anonymized trip data and process millions of live street-side images with Vision to identify missing streets, isolate precise traffic problems, and build new and continuously updated datasets.
We’re also enhancing the localization of our maps. Mapbox GL now includes GL rendering for Japanese glyphs, global Japanese labels, bilingual labels, and vertical label orientation.
Our enhanced Japan maps are available through a private beta. For access, email me at ben@mapbox.com. We’d love to hear about what you’re building.
Ben Levin - Head of Commercial Operations - Mapbox | LinkedIn
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