Nexar Live Map launches in NYC
Explore the world with fresh street-level imagery
By: Tory Smith
The dashcam app Nexar just launched Nexar Live Map, an interactive map that allows anyone to see the world thanks to billions of fresh images and metadata from the Nexar network.
When people pair a Nexar-powered smart dashcam with the Nexar app, they join Nexar’s connected vehicle network, where every car is learning in real-time about what’s happening on the road thanks to the others around it.
Nexar Live Map is your window into what the vehicles in the Nexar network are seeing right now. Nexar’s development team uses extremely lightweight AI models running in the Nexar dash cam mobile app to pull the most recent images and data and plug them into the Mapbox mapping platform. They use the Mapbox Maps SDK to take Mapbox street data and seamlessly layer in live data from the Nexar network in real-time, resulting in a fast and snappy map to explore street-level imagery. Users can zoom into different areas of the map and filter images by construction zones, potholes, traffic lights and more. Nexar automatically anonymizes and aggregates all information so that neither the driver nor anyone on the road can be identified.
Nexar has rapidly expanded its connected vehicle network. People using Nexar’s smart dash cams have logged more than 500 million miles, and Nexar’s network has significant density in more than 100 U.S. cities. Combining our technologies in this way makes it possible to explore roads as they exist today — not as they may have appeared months or years ago—yielding fresher data for personal navigation, last-mile delivery, city management, and travel.
The Nexar Live Map is available now for New York City, with more cities to follow as Nexar builds out its network.
