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Stage 1
Activate the head unit
Capture intent and source evidence without inventing a more precise state than the inputs support.
Production solution blueprint
Navigation built for intermittent connectivity
Ship an activated, updateable in-vehicle navigation lifecycle with online enhancement.
Business outcomeReliable guidance across coverage gaps without giving up traffic, search freshness, or safety.
The operating situation
A vehicle crosses a long connectivity gap after receiving a regional data update the night before. Navigation must boot with a compatible signed offline package, plan and guide locally, blend online traffic/search when available, protect driver attention, and recover automatically if the new package or runtime is unhealthy.
DriverVehicle head unitOEM cloudMap-data operatorDealer/support engineer
Keep authority explicit across the stack
01Vehicle/OEM identityOwns hardware, market/region, entitlement, runtime compatibility, privacy/consent, activation and update campaign.
02Dual-slot offline runtimeMaintains one active and one staged signed package, atomic activation pointer, health acknowledgement and rollback evidence.
03Local navigationSearch index, routing graph, guidance and map rendering operate without network under pinned runtime/data/profile versions.
04Online enhancementTrusted cloud boundary adds fresh search, traffic and telemetry only when entitled and available; responses carry freshness/provenance.
05Fleet operationsCampaign, download, verification, activation, health, rollback and support diagnostics are stateful journeys with aggregate metrics.
From intent to reconciled outcome
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Stage 2
Install compatible signed regional data
Advance through an idempotent boundary, preserve stable Mappls identity, and expose freshness and ownership.
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Stage 3
Plan and guide offline
Advance through an idempotent boundary, preserve stable Mappls identity, and expose freshness and ownership.
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Stage 4
Blend online traffic and search when available
Advance through an idempotent boundary, preserve stable Mappls identity, and expose freshness and ownership.
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Stage 5
Stage atomic map and runtime updates
Reconcile the terminal result to every authoritative system and retain attributable evidence.
Records that must survive restarts and retries
Vehicle manifest ↔ hardware/runtime/region/entitlement versions
Version, authorize, retain, observe, and reconcile this relationship explicitly; do not recover it later from display text or logs.
Data package ↔ epoch, region, size, content/signature hash, compatibility
Version, authorize, retain, observe, and reconcile this relationship explicitly; do not recover it later from display text or logs.
Route session ↔ offline/online sources, profile, data/traffic versions
Version, authorize, retain, observe, and reconcile this relationship explicitly; do not recover it later from display text or logs.
Update event ↔ campaign, stage, evidence, event/receipt time, health/rollback outcome
Version, authorize, retain, observe, and reconcile this relationship explicitly; do not recover it later from display text or logs.
Design recovery before rollout
Power loss during update
Write only the inactive slot and switch one atomic pointer after verification; boot always finds a previously acknowledged package.
Online traffic disappears mid-route
Keep guiding from the last valid local route, mark traffic freshness and avoid blocking safety-critical guidance.
New package boots but fails route smoke test
Fail health acknowledgement, restore the prior slot and upload privacy-safe diagnostics when connectivity returns.
Products and evidence
Offline & AutomotiveOffline maps, search, routing, guidance, compilers, and embedded navigation runtimes.Routes & NavigationRoutes, matrices, optimization, map matching, predictive ETAs, and turn-by-turn navigation.Search & PlacesAutosuggest, geocoding, nearby discovery, place details, and Mappls Pin addressing.InTouch TelematicsLive tracking, trips, devices, vehicles, events, geofences, and fleet intelligence.
stateful
Connected fleet trip
Provision an observable trip, follow live vehicle state, explain exceptions, close deliberately, and retain a replayable operational record.
statefulFleet geofence exception
Create a governed zone, evaluate vehicle activity, suppress noise, raise an actionable case, and retire the rule safely.
statefulCoordinated incident response
Resolve an incident location, select a capable available responder, route and observe the unit, adapt to hazards, establish arrival, resolve with evidence, and review every decision.
hybridRecoverable navigation session
Move from route intent through preview, guidance, reroute, arrival, and cleanup while surviving process, sensor, and network interruption.
Earn the right to automate
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Rollout gate
Prove offline boot/search/route on target hardware
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Rollout gate
Add signed dual-slot package staging and power-loss tests
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Rollout gate
Pilot online search/traffic as optional enhancement
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Rollout gate
Run canary update campaigns with automatic rollback
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Rollout gate
Scale after driver-distraction, functional-safety, privacy, cybersecurity and dealer-support approval
Measure the outcome
Tutorials and downloadable applications
Beginner
Build address autocomplete that users trust
Debounce input, apply bias, handle keyboard selection, and retain the Mappls Pin.
IntermediateBuild a route preview with alternatives
Resolve endpoints, request alternatives, decode geometry, and explain toll/time trade-offs.
IntermediateCreate a nearby discovery experience
Combine category search, viewport updates, result cards, and map selection.
AdvancedTrack a delivery with a trustworthy ETA
Join asset telemetry, map matching, route progress, ETA refresh, and customer visibility.
AdvancedBuild fleet geofence operations
Create zones, process enter/exit events, suppress noise, and power an exception queue.
AdvancedDesign an interruption-safe offline map update
Verify packages, stage data, check compatibility, switch atomically, and roll back.
Advanced · verified app
Care Transfer Desk
Confirm the correct receiving entrance, assign eligible transport, preserve courier custody, review condition exceptions, and reconcile receiver acceptance without retaining patient or clinical data.
Advanced · verified app
Incident Dispatch
Resolve an incident, choose a capable available responder, route, track evidence, enforce arrival, and review.
Advanced · verified app
Spatial Operations Agent
Research, plan, approve, execute, and cite grounded Mappls MCP operations through fixture, local stdio, or authenticated remote transports.