Curb data can be intensely useful to city planners and transportation companies alike, but it's usually fenced off. What if everyone had access to it? They will now. Alphabet spinoff Coord has launched Open Curbs, a public repository for curb info li...
Open Curbs database could make it easier to catch an Uber
Curb data can be intensely useful to city planners and transportation companies alike, but it's usually fenced off. What if everyone had access to it? They will now. Alphabet spinoff Coord has launched Open Curbs, a public repository for curb info li...
Google's parent company, Alphabet, has an offshoot called Sidewalk Labs tasked with improving urban living. The division gave birth to Coord, a spin-off which is launching a smart route planner today for people in New York City and Washington DC. The...
Last month, Google's city-innovating department Sidewalk Labs released Coord, a cloud-based platform that provides data on all the curbs in a city. In practice, businesses can use this to figure out in real-time where to load and unload goods, pick u...
Google Maps might plot the fastest route to your destination, but sometimes the service doesn't seem know about accidents or rerouted public transit. Coord wants to fix that by supplying current navigation information for companies to plug into their...