Tokyo International Cartographic Conference Keynote on AI Mapping
By: Dave Cole
We’re honored to be invited to Tokyo this summer to keynote on the “Next Generation Maps for All.” The explosion of connected sensors, advances in AI, processing power on the edge and in the cloud, are truly making real-time maps and intelligence available for everyone. It’s stunning to consider how much has happened in mapping and location since the 2017 ICC in Washington, DC. Of course, the tools are better and more accessible, and we’re seeing that every day in journalism, advocacy, global development, business intelligence.
We’re continually making improvements to both Japanese map data and label rendering for Japanese, and I’m excited to share what’s next.
Machines can now map for us in more significant ways, and we can all be part of building the living map that every day powers the lives of individuals and the operations of the worlds biggest companies. The live map is just getting started. We’ve just partnered with Sprint as the mapping platform for their 5G IoT network, optimized for delivering information at the speed necessary for autonomous fleets operating at scale.
The power of mapping itself is becoming democratized. Not long ago, thousands of people needed to sit in front of computers drawing a road network and processing feature extraction out of the Street View imagery captured by a fleet of specialized camera equipment. Today, our Vision SDK can do that on your phone — from your camera, on your dash, sending precise contextual data back to the map in real-time, with extremely low bandwidth, while running turn-by-turn AR navigation.
I’m so excited to see what’s next. See you this summer in Tokyo.
