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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, BMW announced the opening of a new research center in Germany dedicated to the development of technologies in the area of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data ...

Mapillary, a street-level imagery platform, has announced that photologs with 40 million images of about 270,000 miles of road data have been uploaded to its system to improve safety in the commercial ...

Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world by way of a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, is taking an interesting step in the development ...

Mapillary has released a video showing 3D models of locations its users photograph. The company said this gives users “the power to virtually explore their own photos like never before.” According to ...

Editor's take: It wasn't all that long ago that digital maps weren't even a thing. I can vividly remember going on family vacations armed with little more than a road atlas from the local gas station ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc on Thursday acquired Swedish mapping technology company Mapillary, which collects images from tens of thousands of contributors to build immersive and up-to-date ...

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 ...