Civil Maps

Civil Maps was a San Francisco autonomous-vehicle mapping company founded in 2015 by Sravan Puttagunta and Scott Harvey, with Fabien Chraim and Anuj Gupta on the founding team. It built AI software that turned vehicle LiDAR and camera data into machine-readable HD 3D maps and delivered real-time six-degrees-of-freedom localization at 15-20 cm absolute accuracy, crowdsourcing map updates from production fleets rather than from dedicated survey vehicles, and packaged that as the Atlas DevKit and Atlas Lite DevKit car-mounted units. It raised roughly USD 17 million across four rounds, including a USD 6.6 million seed led by Motus Ventures with Ford Motor Company, Wicklow Capital, StartX and AME Cloud Ventures, and was acquired by Luminar Technologies in mid-2022 - an acquisition Luminar announced at CES in January 2023 and folded into its Sentinel platform. Civil Maps no longer operates as an independent business: civilmaps.com is a frozen four-page marketing archive stamped "Copyright 2019" with no developer section, it publishes no developer portal, no API documentation and no machine-readable API contract, and its 2015-era GitHub organization holds five C++ repositories last pushed between 2017 and 2020.

Civil Maps is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Autonomous Vehicles, HD Mapping, Localization, and LiDAR.

Civil Maps’ developer surface includes engineering blog and 17 more developer resources.

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8.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

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CompanyAutonomous VehiclesHD MappingLocalizationLiDARPoint CloudGeospatialAutomotiveMachine LearningAcquiredUnited States

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Composite quality — 8.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

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 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

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Build 3

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SourceCode

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Packages

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Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Contact

Contact

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Crunchbase

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Other 4

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: civil-maps
name: Civil Maps
description: 'Civil Maps was a San Francisco autonomous-vehicle mapping company founded in 2015 by Sravan Puttagunta and Scott
  Harvey, with Fabien Chraim and Anuj Gupta on the founding team. It built AI software that turned vehicle LiDAR and camera
  data into machine-readable HD 3D maps and delivered real-time six-degrees-of-freedom localization at 15-20 cm absolute accuracy,
  crowdsourcing map updates from production fleets rather than from dedicated survey vehicles, and packaged that as the Atlas
  DevKit and Atlas Lite DevKit car-mounted units. It raised roughly USD 17 million across four rounds, including a USD 6.6
  million seed led by Motus Ventures with Ford Motor Company, Wicklow Capital, StartX and AME Cloud Ventures, and was acquired
  by Luminar Technologies in mid-2022 - an acquisition Luminar announced at CES in January 2023 and folded into its Sentinel
  platform. Civil Maps no longer operates as an independent business: civilmaps.com is a frozen four-page marketing archive
  stamped "Copyright 2019" with no developer section, it publishes no developer portal, no API documentation and no machine-readable
  API contract, and its 2015-era GitHub organization holds five C++ repositories last pushed between 2017 and 2020.'
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- LiDAR
- Point Cloud
- Geospatial
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- Machine Learning
- Acquired
- United States
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