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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.

5.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only self hosted · GPL-3.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
0 APIs
CompanyAutonomous VehiclesHD MappingLocalizationLiDARPoint CloudGeospatialAutomotiveMachine-LearningAcquiredUnited States

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/civil-maps/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: GPL-3.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15333110?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-09'
modified: '2026-08-09'
tags:
- Company
- Autonomous Vehicles
- HD Mapping
- Localization
- LiDAR
- Point Cloud
- Geospatial
- Automotive
- Machine-Learning
- Acquired
- United States
tags_raw:
- Company
- Autonomous Vehicles
- HD Mapping
- Localization
- LiDAR
- Point Cloud
- Geospatial
- Automotive
- Machine Learning
- Acquired
- United States
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-09'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Civil Maps was acquired by Luminar Technologies in mid-2022 and folded into Luminar's Sentinel platform, and civilmaps.com
    is now a frozen four-page marketing archive stamped "Copyright 2019" whose Cloudflare origin soft-404s every probe - /openapi.json,
    /llms.txt, /graphql, /developers and every /.well-known/ path all return HTTP 200 carrying the identical 7,082-byte homepage
    shell.
  evidence:
  - url: https://civilmaps.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://civilmaps.com/openapi.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://civilmaps.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://civilmaps.com/zzz-no-such-path-9f3a
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.civilmaps.com/
    status: 0
  checked: '2026-08-09'
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/civilmaps/cm-hal/issues
- type: License
  name: GPL-3.0
  url: https://github.com/civilmaps/cm-hal/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/civil-maps-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://civilmaps.com/
- type: About
  url: https://civilmaps.com/about-us/
- type: Blog
  url: https://civilmaps.com/category/updates/
- type: WhitePapers
  url: https://civilmaps.com/category/white-papers/
- type: Contact
  url: https://civilmaps.com/contact/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/civilmaps
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/civilmaps/cm-hal
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/civil-maps/
- type: Medium
  url: https://medium.com/@CivilMaps
- type: Crunchbase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/civil-maps
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/civil-maps_stock/
- type: Acquirer
  url: https://www.luminartech.com/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/civil-maps-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/civil-maps-packages.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/civil-maps-conformance.yml

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