David Rumsey: HD mapping achieves cartography's holy grail of living maps
David Rumsey · a16z Podcast | Exploding the Map · Jan 2, 2019 · at 37:20
David Rumsey discusses how modern sensor-based high-definition maps shift cartography from static historical artifacts to dynamic, real-time spatial representations.
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“Opening up a whole new frontier of mapping that is mapping at a very, very high definitional level, which creates a whole new kind of map. When you map at that level of accuracy, you are making a living map, a map that is full of so much information that we've never had. You're really mapping the world one-to-one, and that's sort of the holy grail.”
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