AND International Publishers inks deal to create autonomous driving maps

AND International Publishers has entered into a strategic agreement with a subsidiary of an unnamed European automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM), it announced on Tuesday.

The Dutch company said it would create high-definition maps from car sensor data for autonomous driving, using MapFusion.

It said the ‘AND MapFusion’ technology was key in this application to creating “unprecedented” rich, accurate and affordable map data.

The signed contract would contribute “substantially” to the further development of MapFusion to create such map data, AND explained.

“With this agreement AND follows the trend in the automotive sector of more and more vehicles getting connected to the Internet and equipped with advanced sensors,” the firm’s board said in its statement.

“Map and location data are essential for autonomous driving.”

AND said the “conventional way” of creating maps no longer fulfilled the requirements of autonomous driving.

“AND’s MapFusion not only ensures an unprecedented richness and accuracy of map data, but also delivers it at substantially lower costs.”