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Finding Genius Podcast

Jeroen Seghers - CEO At Mapfit - Map To The Door

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Mapfit Inc was founded in 2015 with the mission to reinvent and rebuild how map data is aggregated, processed, and distributed. Since then, they have built a mapping platform which ingests imagery, telemetry and spatial data sets, autonomously correcting hundreds of millions of map data points in hours. They use cutting-edge maps with seamless APIs, frameworks, and data licensing at a fraction of what competitors charge.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

0:07.0

Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

0:13.0

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

0:17.0

Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

0:21.0

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

0:25.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Feature Tech Podcast. I'm your host Juliet Lamar and

0:32.4

joining us today is Jay Deggers. He is the CEO at

0:37.4

MAPSIT. Welcome, Jay. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

0:41.1

Absolutely. So why don't you give our listeners

0:44.1

a little insight into Map Fit, which is your company?

0:48.2

Tell us what you do over there.

0:49.4

So I'm not that.

0:50.7

We provide real-time actors well-structured maps to power the next generation of applications.

0:57.0

Supereffectively a mapping company and we were founded three years ago.

1:04.0

And the genesis of the company is really thinking about all the future applications

1:09.2

that are being built and in future technologies that are being developed at the moment and the level of mapping and

1:15.4

accuracy that they require to fulfill their purpose, right? And that made us kind of evaluate what current mapping technologies are able to deliver and the additional level of detail and

1:30.9

granularity in real- time updates that are required and how we can build a platform.

1:38.0

Very cool. So there's a couple of map apps and mapping technologies out there that a lot of people are familiar with.

1:46.2

What really sets maps that apart from, you know, say the Google Maps of the world?

1:51.1

Yeah, so in order to go and satisfy that long-term vision, right?

1:56.1

And that level of accuracy, we basically have rebuilt how mapping data is aggregated and processed from all the way from the ground up.

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