Introduction to Location Technology at the Data for Happiness Hackathon in Dubai, UAE

2. Where am I?

6. We’re never really lost anymore.

7. Location Technology
Location technology is an integral part of our daily lives.

11. Dr. Richard Süselbeck
Principal Developer Evangelist
HERE Technologies
@sueselbeck @heredev

12. The world‘s leading location technology company.

13. Working with the Roads and Transport Authority, our aim it to
support Dubai in their goal of transforming 25% of their
transport services to fully autonomous solutions by 2030.

14. Expectations
developer.here.com

15. Where am I?

16. Example: Browser Geolocation API
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) {
document.write(position.coords.latitude + ", " +
position.coords.longitude);
});

17. Example: HERE Android Positioning API
PositioningManager positioningManager =
PositioningManager.getInstance();
positioningManager.start(
PositioningManager.LocationMethod.GPS_NETWORK);
GeoPosition position = positioningManager.GetPosition();

18. So we are at 25.2598, 55.3184. What does that mean?
Latitude & Longitude
Latitude Longitude
Equator
Prime Meridian
+60
-30
-90 (South)
+90 (North) 180
-120 (West)
+30 (East)

19. How did we get the location?

20. How did we get the location?
GPS

21. How did we get the location?
GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS, BeiDou, NAVIC, QZSS
GNSS

22. How did we get the location?
GNSS isn‘t the only way to get a location.
Radio signals:
Cell towers, Wifi, Bluetooth, etc

23. Example: HERE Positioning API
https://pos.api.here.com/positioning/v1/locate?
app_id=YOUR_APP_ID
&app_code=YOUR_APP_CODE
credentials
{
"wlan": [
{"mac": "8C-1A-BF-20-66-AD"},
{"mac": "A0-E4-53-E9-66-A7"},
...
{"mac": "B8-6B-23-09-87-B1"},
{"mac": "F4-55-95-11-2C-C1"}
]
}

24. Where am I?
Use a Positioning API.
Understand the technology the location comes from.
Choose the right API for the right task/device.

25. Where am I?
By themselves a latitude and longitude aren‘t always helpful.
Their power is in placing us on a map.

26. Maps
Making Maps is hard.

27. Maps
Making Maps is hard.

28. Maps

29. Maps

30. Map APIs
Map Image API Interactive Map API

31. Example: HERE Map Image API
https://image.maps.api.here.com/mia/1.6/mapview?
&c=25.25984, 55.31845
&z=16
&w=640
&h=400
center of the map
zoom level
Image width and height

32. Example: HERE Map Image API
https://image.maps.api.here.com/mia/1.6/route?
&r0=52.540867,13.262444,
52.536691,13.264561,
52.529172,13.268337,
52.528337,13.273144,
52.52583,13.27898,
52.518728,13.279667
&lc0=44ff00ff
waypoints
line color

33. Example: HERE Interactive Maps API
var platform = new H.service.Platform({
app_id: YOUR_APP_ID',
app_code: YOUR_APP_CODE',
useHTTPS: true
});
var defaultLayers = platform.createDefaultLayers();
var map = new H.Map(document.getElementById('map'),
defaultLayers.normal.map);
var behavior = new H.mapevents.Behavior(new
H.mapevents.MapEvents(map));
var ui = H.ui.UI.createDefault(map, defaultLayers);

34. Where am I?
18 40A Street,
Al Muraqqabat, Dubai

35. Where am I?
Invalidenstraße 116
10245 Berlin
18 40A Street,
Al Muraqqabat, Dubai

36. Geocoder API
25.264025, 55.317489
Invalidenstraße 116
10245 Berlin52.530861, 13.38474
18 40A Street,
Al Muraqqabat, Dubai

37. https://reverse.geocoder.api.here.com/6.2/reversegeocode.json?
&mode=retrieveAddresses
&prox=52.5319841,13.3828921
Example: HERE Geocoder API
https://geocoder.api.here.com/6.2/geocode.json?
&searchtext=18+40A+Street+Al+Muraqqabat+Dubai
return the closest street address
location (and radius)

38. What‘s around us?
Maps provide context for a location.
Places (points of interest) are another type of context.

39. Where do I want to go?
Location isn‘t just about where you are. It‘s about where you‘re going.

40. Example: HERE Places API
// creates a Search entrypoint
var search = new H.places.Search(platform.getPlacesService());
// creates parameters for search request
var params = {
'q’: cafe',
'at': '25.25981,55.31841'
};
// creates a request with callbacks
search.request(params, {}, onResult, onError);
function onResult(result) {}
function onError(error) {}

41. Example: HERE Interactive Maps API
var group = new H.map.Group();
group.addObjects(places.map(function (place) {
var marker = new H.map.Marker({lat: place.position[0],
lng: place.position[1]})
return marker;
}));
map.addObject(group);
map.setViewBounds(group.getBounds());

42. How do I get there?
Find your way using the Routing API.

43. Example: HERE Routing API
https://route.api.here.com/routing/7.2/calculateroute.json?
waypoint0=25.25972, 55.31816
&waypoint1=25.10185, 55.38622
&mode=fastest;car;traffic:enabled
start and end point
routing mode

44. Location is solved!
(sort of)

45. “The most profound technologies are those that
disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of
everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.”
- Mark Weiser

46. The Future™

47. The Future™

48. The Future™
10 Billion People

49. The Future™
10 Billion People

50. The Future™
Giant Cities
10 Billion People

51. The Future™
Giant Cities
10 Billion People

52. The Future™
Giant Cities
Autonomous cars
10 Billion People

53. The Future™
Giant Cities
Autonomous cars
10 Billion People

54. The Future™
Giant Cities
Autonomous cars
Autonomous everything!
10 Billion People

55. The Future™
Giant Cities
Autonomous cars
Autonomous everything!
10 Billion People

56. The Future™
Giant Cities
Autonomous cars
Autonomous everything!
New mobility concepts
10 Billion People

57. The Future™
Giant Cities
Autonomous cars
Autonomous everything!
New mobility concepts
10 Billion People
Everything is a sensor!

58. How do we make sense of this future?
10 Billion People Giant Cities Everything is a sensor!

59. How do we build this future?
Autonomous carsNew mobility concepts Autonomous everything

60. How do we make sense of this future?
How do we build this future?
Location Technology!

61. The Present
We have amazing Maps.
But they are static, they have no real-time data, they don‘t self-heal.

62. The Present
We have an amazing Routing.
But it does not know about the ice in that dangerous corner.

63. The Present
Every car (and cow) is a sensor array, generating a
constant stream of amazing location data.
But we have no good way of using that data,
creating new insights and applications.

64. Current maps and location services
are built for the past:
Location 1.0

65. Let‘s build Location 2.0!
What do we need?

66. First, we need a map.
A better map. A 3D, real-time, high-definition, self-
healing representation of the world around us.

67. Second, we need data.
But more and better data.
Data from vehicles, data from infrastructure, data from people,
data from things and data from cows.

68. Third, we need a platform.
Infrastructure and marketplace to connect maps,
location data, location services and
enable developers, data consumers, data producers.

69. Fourth, developers, developers, de...you get the idea.
We can only build the future with such a
platform, if its powerful tools and amazing data
are available to developers.

70. HERE Open Location Platform

71. It‘s never been more exciting to
build amazing things with
location technology.

72. https://developer.here.com
@sueselbeck @heredev