MALMO, SWEDEN--(Marketwired - Mar 3, 2016) - Mapillary, a community-based photomapping platform, today announced an $8 million Series A funding round led by Atomico, with participation from Sequoia, ...

Try dropping Pegman onto Havana on Google Maps, and the most you’ll see is a sparse collection of panoramic photos taken at a few intersections and town squares around the Cuban city—all uploaded by ...

Google Street View is a pretty awesome tool that Google provides in its Google Maps app and desktop interface. It provides users photos of the area of the map they’re looking at, provided the Google ...

Facebook has done a fair bit with maps in recent times — last year it opened up its AI tool to OpenStreetMap users and announced its plans to recreate an AR planet based on a 3D map of the world. More ...

Facebook has acquired a startup map company called Mapillary in what is likely an effort to compete with Google Maps and Apple Maps. The Swedish map company, founded in 2013, is similar to its ...

Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook, according to the company ...

Solem CEO first said, 'From the day the service of Mapillary started, we provide global street level images to enable everyone to get the images and data they need to make better maps. We've been ...

Facebook FB has acquired mapping technology provider Mapillary, per latter’s blog. The deal enables the social media giant to access the Swedish company’s trove of street-view maps and imagery data.