This document discusses the future of location technology and the need for a better map, more location data, and a platform to connect maps, data, services, and developers. It introduces the HERE Open Location Platform, which provides a development environment and marketplace as a one-stop shop for location-centric development. An example is given of a cycling app company using the platform to access more data and create a bike road safety index service. The platform handles data access, analysis, processing, publishing and integration to help developers focus on building applications.

1. Dr. Richard Süselbeck
Principal Developer Evangelist
HERE Technologies
@sueselbeck

3. Bribery The API itselfPresentation

5. Nope.

6. Location
technology
is boring.

8. You‘re wrong!

9. But is she?

10. Location is
solved.

11. “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

12. The Future™

13. The Future™

14. The Future™
10 Billion People

15. The Future™
10 Billion People

16. The Future™
Giant Cities
10 Billion People

17. The Future™
Giant Cities
10 Billion People

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

29. 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.

30. She was right! (Sort of.)
Current maps and location services
are built for the past.

31. What do we need?

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

33. 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.

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

35. 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.

36. HERE Open Location Platform

37. Online and offline secure multi-
tenant development environment to
create data products, services, or
applications
Integrated secure eCommerce
environment to monetize data
products, services, or applications
brought from external to OLP or
created in OLP development
environment
HERE Open Location Platform
One-stop shop for location-centric development
Development Environment Marketplace

38. A company that makes an app for cyclists.
One of the core features: a bike road safety index.
Problem: limited data from app.
DinoCycle
Example

39. Sign-up,
Account Management
Data Access &
Ingestion Data Analysis

40. Data Processing Data Publishing

41. Integration Engineer
Data Scientist
Data Engineer
Application Engineer
Analyzes data and
applies algorithms
Data ingested
into OLP
Resulting service
integrated
Creates data
processing pipeline

42. Focus on developers!
It‘s never been more exciting to
build amazing things with location
technology.
Yes!

43. https://developer.here.com
@sueselbeck