Maps for Coachella, Glastonbury and other music festivals
As early signs of summer begin to appear in the northern hemisphere, thousands of people will be desperately hoping to secure tickets to one of the world’s major music festivals, where the opportunity...
View ArticleWhy transit maps are becoming too complicated
… and what we can do about it. Modern transit maps are a mess. Specifically, those maps you’d use to get from A to B on more than one mode of transport may simply be too complex for our brains to cope...
View ArticleThe Continental and Michelin tyre tech that’s shaking up the auto industry
As the point of contact between your car and the road, tyres are one of the most important aspects of motoring, and the technology involved has changed almost beyond recognition in recent years. It...
View ArticleWe are HERE: crafting the hardware for mapping cars
For the next of our employee profiles, we had a chat with Cyrus McGuire, Operations Hardware Lead at HERE in Berkeley, California. Q. Please tell us about your role at HERE and how you feel about your...
View ArticleInsight from Esri on how maps are making elections smarter
This year’s U.S. presidential election is unlike any other in modern history — and not because of who’s running. Location-based technology is mobilizing citizens and real-time election maps are...
View ArticleCharting Nathan Drake’s journey through Uncharted
With Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End flying off the shelves following its release this week, we thought we’d pay tribute to the globetrotting exploits of Nathan Drake, using HERE maps to chart his journey,...
View ArticleMapping the X-Men
Having mapped the Marvel Comics Universe in a previous post, we turn our attentions to a Marvel property that has so far stood outside the realm of The Avengers movies, locating the graduates of...
View ArticleMapping the filming locations of Game of Thrones
With the sixth season of Game of Thrones currently being devoured by fans, we have decided to take a look at the real-life locations of some of the most iconic parts of Westeros – land of dragons,...
View ArticleThe performance tests that help HERE deliver a world-beating platform
Companies around the world base their web services on HERE APIs, so it’s important that we can deliver a stable platform that lives up to expectations. That’s why HERE carries out continuous...
View ArticleHow HERE positioning tech hits the spot
It’s pretty easy to take for granted the blue dot that shows where you are on the HERE map. Behind the screen and up in the Cloud, however, there’s an enormous amount of highly sophisticated technology...
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