Carmera *

CARMERA was a New York City based road-intelligence and HD mapping company that provided "change-as-a-service" map maintenance for autonomous driving, mobility-as-a-service and consumer navigation. It used consumer-grade cameras mounted on commercial fleet vehicles as crowdsourced visual probes to detect permanent road inventory change (signs, signals, lane markings) and temporary closure events (construction), then regenerated both HD and SD maps in near real time. Its commercial offering was described as detection APIs that identify map-impacting events plus vector APIs that deliver map updates, layered over a customer-supplied or CARMERA-supplied base map. The company was backed by GV and was acquired in July 2021 by Woven Planet (now Woven by Toyota), the advanced mobility subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Its APIs were sold under enterprise agreements and were never published as a public developer program; as of this enrichment pass the carmera.com domain no longer resolves and no developer portal, documentation, SDK, or API artifact survives.

Carmera * is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Frontier Tech, Mapping, HD Maps, and Geospatial.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyFrontier TechMappingHD MapsGeospatialAutonomous VehiclesAutomotiveMobilityAcquiredDefunct

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: carmera
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/carmera.png
name: Carmera *
description: CARMERA was a New York City based road-intelligence and HD mapping company that provided "change-as-a-service"
  map maintenance for autonomous driving, mobility-as-a-service and consumer navigation. It used consumer-grade cameras mounted
  on commercial fleet vehicles as crowdsourced visual probes to detect permanent road inventory change (signs, signals, lane
  markings) and temporary closure events (construction), then regenerated both HD and SD maps in near real time. Its commercial
  offering was described as detection APIs that identify map-impacting events plus vector APIs that deliver map updates, layered
  over a customer-supplied or CARMERA-supplied base map. The company was backed by GV and was acquired in July 2021 by Woven
  Planet (now Woven by Toyota), the advanced mobility subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Its APIs were sold under enterprise
  agreements and were never published as a public developer program; as of this enrichment pass the carmera.com domain no
  longer resolves and no developer portal, documentation, SDK, or API artifact survives.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/carmera/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-status-detail: Acquired July 2021 by Woven Planet (Woven by Toyota), the advanced mobility subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation.
  Primary domain carmera.com no longer resolves (NS delegated to a parking registrar, no A record); carmera.io and carmera.ai
  serve domain-lander pages unrelated to the original company.
x-acquired-by: woven-by-toyota
x-acquired-date: 2021-07
x-acquirer-url: https://woven.toyota/en/
x-defunct-evidence:
- source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woven_Planet_Holdings
  note: Lists the July 2021 CARMERA acquisition by Woven by Toyota.
- source: http://web.archive.org/web/20211227182124/https://www.carmera.com/
  note: 'Final archived homepage carries the banner: "We''re excited to announce that we''ve been acquired by Woven Planet,
    the advanced mobility subsidiary of the Toyota Motor Corporation!"'
- source: dns
  note: carmera.com returns no A record (probed 2026-07-20); api./docs./developer.carmera.com do not resolve.
x-no-api-surface: true
x-no-api-surface-reason: 'Enrichment probes found no live developer surface. Archived site (2021-12-27) exposed only about/,
  solutions/, fleets/, join/, privacy/, terms/ and a Medium blog — no developer portal, documentation, API reference, or spec.
  Registry probes: npm search "carmera" 0 results; pypi.org/pypi/carmera 404; no github.com/carmera organization (the handle
  is an unrelated personal account).'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Frontier Tech
- Mapping
- HD Maps
- Geospatial
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Automotive
- Mobility
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
common: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1