You know how Google hopes to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful?” Swedish startup Mapillary wants to do the same thing with the world’s road signs. As it ...

MALMO, SWEDEN--(Marketwired - May 19, 2016) - Mapillary, a community-based photomapping platform, today announced the hire of Peter Kontschieder as head of a new research lab located in Graz, Austria.

Mapping is expected to be a key component of self-driving car technology. Startups such as Mapbox Civil Maps, DeepMap and Lvl5 working on such technology have raised more than $270 million in venture ...

Even in a town the size of Clovis, N.M., no one has ever taken on the job of counting the several thousand highway and street signs. “Nobody had done a sign inventory before,” said Steve Hewett, GIS ...

A startup out of Sweden called Mapillary is using crowdsourced photos to create an open and more intelligent version of Google’s Street View, and today it announced a Series A round of funding from an ...

Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook, according to the company ...

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Many of today's businesses have recognized the benefits of AI. McKinsey reports that computer vision ranks second among all other AI solutions in terms of application, and Statista research predicts ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Mapillary, a Malmo, Sweden-based map technology startup, has hired a computer vision expert away from Apple Inc, the company said Wednesday. Till Quack, who worked at Apple as an ...