HERE Technologies and what3words have announced an expansion of their partnership to allow its Location Services application programming interfaces (APIs) customers to use the United Kingdom-based company’s global addressing system.
HERE, which says its customers are already able to activate their what3words license,...
Point One Navigation Announces Polaris Location Services in South Korea
Point One Navigation has announced that their Polaris real-time kinematic (RTK) location network is now available in South Korea. The network is available to deliver centimeter-accurate location services to businesses and application developers,...
Company has own GNSS augmentation service...
Solidifying its position as one of the top industrial users of satellite technology, John Deere DE -0.88%↓ this week signed a deal with SpaceX to provide satellite communications service to farmers. Using the SpaceX Starlink network, the venture will allow farmers with...
LAS VEGAS—Overture Maps Foundation Executive Director Marc Prioleau said at CES that the organization’s main assumption is that the base layers of a map should be open and shared. “There still is going to be a ton of growth in map data,...
LAS VEGAS—Despite fears of automotive market saturation, there were dozens of companies offering lidar sensors for automotive and other uses at CES. Some companies are offering products for markets besides auto OEMs.
PreAct Technologies announced new flash lidar sensors: Sahara, Borrego and Moab for agriculture, healthcare,...
LAS VEGAS—San Francisco-based Point One Navigation’s Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) corrections technology was used by all autonomous racecars in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC). The race, part of CES 2024, which was won by TUM Autonomous Motorsport from the Technical University of Munich.
While some industry observers...
PointPerfect GNSS Correction Serviced Expands to Brazil
Nordian and u-blox have announced expanded coverage of the PointPerfect GNSS correction service to Brazil, a growing market for GNSS applications. The deal between u-blox and Nordian will allow such applications as high-precision agriculture, but also service robots,...
HERE Technologies, Mapbox and TomTom court OEMs
LAS VEGAS—Among dozens of mobility and auto companies at this year’s CES trade show, mapping companies took the lion’s share of news with product and service rollouts and partnerships.
In one of the CES...
Quectel Wireless Solutions has been accused by a U.S. House Select Committee of having “problematic relationships” with the Chinese Communist Party and its military. In a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, chairman Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., of...
Industry executives cautiously optimistic going into 2024...
The location industry in 2023 had a mix of good and bad news, ranging from billion-dollar acquisitions and new products to global threats to satellite navigation signals. The editors of Location Business News talked to...
