LYFT cooperates with Bee Maps, a decentralized map platform built on Hivemapper -infrastructure, to support its internal mapping efforts, the company has confirmed Decrypt.
The Rideshare company started working with bee cards in 2024 and uses the street level data to improve routing and navigation as it expands its autonomous vehicle strategy.
Bee tickets publicly announced the relationship in one Blog post On Wednesday, Lyft describes as a customer of his crypto-internaled card network.
The consumer-oriented mapping product is built on top of Hivemapper, a decentralized, crypto-internaled map building network that runs on Solana.
The platform is based on a global network of contributors who upload street scenes via AI-driven dashcams and reward them with its native honeytoken.
“Lyft acknowledged that Old-School Mapping could not keep up with the real world,” said Ariel Seidman, co-founder and CEO of Bee Maps, in the post. “To make mobility work and for autonomy to become reality, cards cannot be a side issue – they must be crowdsourced, alive, accurate and open.”
While bee cards have promoted the use of crowdsourced data of drivers, Decrypt Understands that Lyft’s partnership is limited to licensing data with licenses and not Lyft drivers or their vehicles that contribute to the platform.
Lyft has previously invested in Open-Source Mapping by contributing to OpenStreetMap, and the bee-map partnership points to its continuous push to more flexible and real-time mapping systems, regardless of Legacy providers.
Conditions of the deal between the couple were not announced.
Logan Hitchcock has contributed to reporting.