HERE Technologies, a location data and platform company, has made two announcements. First, the company has released HERE Data Layers, a standalone geospatial representations of the world’s road networks, pathways, buildings, structures, places, land use and land cover. Second, it is partnering with INRIX, a location-based data and analytics company, to offer a complete parking solution that includes on-street and off-street parking availability, dynamic rates and indoor mapping to HERE automotive customers.
HERE Data Layers
Demand for high-quality geospatial data has skyrocketed across industries as the global economy becomes more and more digitized.The geospatial data will serve as a menu for developers and data scientists to select the datasets needed to power today’s location-based functions, applications and customer experiences.
HERE Data Layers will improve software developer and data scientists’ access to the rich cartographic features and attributes captured within an enterprise-grade mapping platform.
HERE and INRIX partnership
HERE Parking, a connected vehicle service available around the world which makes finding a spot faster and easier, will leverage INRIX for static and dynamic, on-street parking data in more than 1,100 cities (65 countries) and off-street parking data in more than 20,000 cities (150 countries).
The combination of INRIX data and HERE location services can navigate the driver to an available spot inside a parking garage, seamlessly transition to a companion mobile app for continued guidance inside a building like an airport or shopping mall, then return the driver to their car with a convenient find-my-car feature. For electric vehicles (EV), drivers will be mapped to the right parking spot with the appropriate charging capabilities.
Additionally, INRIX will leverage the HERE Marketplace to further monetize their traffic analytics data sets. By coupling the learned behaviors of HERE Parking like price versus walking distance with INRIX’s real-time data, analytics and coverage, the new data available via HERE Marketplace will provide leading global coverage and information while guiding drivers to on-street spaces with the highest probability of being available.
Source: HERE
