GPS World, February 2019
MAPPINGMARVEL Peering Behind the Curtain Location intelligence powers applications with data and live maps updated continuously According to Forbes 70 of telecommunications companies consider location intelligence critical to their success The intelligence data is provided by specialists such as Google Esri Here and PlaceIQ In January Sprint and location intelligence startup Mapbox launched precision mapping technology with the Curiosity IoT network The 5G networks extreme bandwidth and low latency will allow Mapbox to collect higher volumes of richer data to create live maps A live map is built not from traditional data surveys months or years before but from data collected from hundreds of millions of location enabled sensors that feed back information about the world in real time including high resolution video Mapbox uses artificial intelligence AI to turn the massive data flows into a picture of real time transit paths that can be used for precise up to date routing According to Mapbox CEO Eric Gundersen maps that constantly update are essential to the internet of things IoT As maps guide new smart machines on IoT networks you remove the human in the middle that used to compensate for differences between the map and the real world he said Precision mapping services need to reflect the world as it is at that precise moment so that those smart machines can travel safely and efficiently According to Mapbox smart machines such as drones and autonomous delivery carts will be able to make fast location and routing decisions using its detailed updated maps Other companies that use Mapboxs location services include IBM Lonely Planet Square Tableau and The Weather Channel Augmented Reality view from the Mapbox Vision SDK Images Mapbox FEBRUARY 2019 WWW GPSWORLD COM GPS WORLD 49 With the ubiquity of location sensors Mapbox collects as much as 250 million miles of anonymized road data per day enabling their live maps to update constantly
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