The high service fees of top players such as Google, Apple, and Ali, and the difficulty of ensuring user data privacy are one of the pain points that the map industry has always been unspeakable. If you want to break through the moat of the giants, players in small companies may have to find a shortcut that can lower the price and ensure accurate map data. The GoWithMi team that Odaily Planet Daily contacted recently wanted to combine blockchain technology with crowdsourced maps. On the C side, GoWithMi wants to create a decentralized crowdsourcing map. Tokens are used to incentivize users to contribute to traffic network, real-time traffic information, poi and other data. At the same time, it also wants to combine information such as past data, weather forecasts, and historical events to predict traffic congestion in advance. On the B side, GoWithMi wants to provide API, SDK, and GeoBI services for the B side application developers. The public chain will open up Internet infrastructure services globally, and provide a "public chain + map" one-stop solution for various decentralized DAPPs, including underlying map data and algorithms, credit on-chain, smart contracts and other services. In fact, the traditional crowdsourcing map model is difficult to develop in cities with a small population base. As the pain points of traffic congestion are not obvious, user participation in small cities is low, which indirectly leads to a decrease in data coverage and accuracy. Using the blockchain method, on the one hand, token incentives will bring users' data contribution motivation, and on the other hand, the user's contribution data can be verified in a decentralized way to improve the true availability of data. Jakarta, Indonesia, in the period of traffic dividend, is the first pilot station of GoWithMi. Since launching on the Google Store in March, GoWithMi has accumulated nearly 1 million users in Jakarta. Although the current incentive method in Jakarta still uses points to redeem gifts, under the incentive model, user data contributes a lot. Although any incentive mechanism may achieve the vision, the blockchain brings certain meanings to data decentralization, data privacy protection, and data return to users. In verifying the authenticity of the data, GoWithMi regards each user as a light node. When A contributes the data of a certain address to the system, it will randomly select some other light nodes (required to have been to this address) for cross-validation. . If the judgment is correct, the light node verifying A will share the revenue (token) with A. Determined as false data, A faces downgrade penalties and may not be eligible to contribute data in the future. “I think there should be large-scale users first, and then use the relatively mature public chain system to cultivate and educate users, and finally introduce a public chain that is more specific to the map industry.†GoWithMi founder and CEO Li Dong revealed that at present, GoWithMi plans to first Try to conduct chain development and business model testing based on the mature Dpos public chain. Due to the strong tool attributes of maps and the limited profitability of the map industry under the traditional model, GoWithMi wants to extend the profitability of the map industry. It wants to introduce the concept of space co-governance nodes, which divides the world into countless GoZones evenly based on spatial basis such as roads and rivers, and digitizes physical assets. In short, GoWithMi turns physical buildings and areas into digital assets. Users purchase the ownership of GoZone through tokens and become a space co-governance node. The basic map revenue (part of the gas fee and GoZone advertising and other service fees) generated by GoZone in the future belongs to its owner. (GoZone property rights can be traded at any time. You need to buy from GoWithMi at the initial stage, and later purchases and appreciation will be returned to the market.) At the same time, the GoZone owner needs to be responsible for the data quality and service quality in the area. When the data in the area is not updated in time, the GoZone owner should use tokens and other measures to encourage light nodes to help them complete the data maintenance work. In terms of the team, the GoWithMi team currently has a total of 40 people, of which two-thirds are technical personnel, and most of the team members have more than 10 years of experience in the map field. Project founder and CEO Li Dong was previously the co-founder and COO of Beijing Century Qualcomm, a traffic information service provider. He has more than 20 years of experience in the map industry. CTO Ren Yi is a senior expert in the map field and has more than 15 years of experience in the development of navigation core algorithms. Li Dong believes: “Because maps are a regulated industry in some countries, resources are very important for practitioners in the global map industry.†He said that the team has a large number of local partners in Southeast Asian countries. Currently, the GoWithMi team is developing its own public chain, which will be launched in April next year. In the business sector, GoWithMi also wants to add business functions such as real-time traffic forecasting and smart contract transactions. Li Dong said frankly that the lack of rewards may not be the first pain point of the user side. Solving road congestion is the rigid and high-frequency pain point of the user side. The development of the chain will be the focus of GoWithMi's short-term breakthrough. Shenzhen Ever-smart Sensor Technology Co., LTD , https://www.fluhandy.com