Mapbox Uses Your Phone's Camera to Chart a Changing World

Getting to the future of transportation requires a good roadmap, and not in the metaphorical sense. Self-driving cars rely on robust knowledge of the world. So do less aspirational technologies: telling drivers how to get across town, tracking burgeoning networks of electric car chargers, geofencing cars with semi-autonomous systems to roads where they can stay safe. And every cartographer faces the same challenge: How to maintain the accuracy of a sprawling map in a world that can change from one moment to the next? Today, Mapbox, which supports map features for companies like Snap, Tinder, and the Weather Channel, announced its bid to do keep tabs on a world that doesn't stop moving.