OpenFLAME: A Federated Mapping Infrastructure

This talk introduces OpenFLAME, a federated mapping infrastructure that lets independent parties manage and serve their own maps, while providing coherent and seamless maps across spaces to applications. Federation improves scalability, privacy, and isolation of maps. Our discovery system, built on top of DNS, identifies maps available for a given region while leveraging existing infrastructure. On top of OpenFLAME, we support core services such as address-to-location mapping, routing, and localization. We are currently deploying OpenFLAME at Carnegie Mellon University, where it powers the first set of spatial applications built on our federated approach.