Brooklyn 3D mappers Carmera expanded to the west coast, opening a Seattle office, GeekWire reports. Five of the company’s 15 employees will work there.

The company produces 3D maps that update continuously. The technology is most likely to be used by autonomous vehicles that need reliable 3D maps to pair with sensors and GPS location data.

“Other than the Bay Area, no city in the US has as many top-notch software engineers with a background in maps due to the presence of Microsoft,” and several other mapping companies and startups, emailed Ethan Sorrelgreen, the chief product officer for Carmera. “Rather than going head-to-head with other autonomous vehicle companies recruiting mapping talent in the Bay Area, we wanted to provide a local option to Seattle based engineers to really get to work at a startup on the core AV software stack (as opposed to just sensors or at a big company).”

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