# Telenav

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/telenav/  
**Website:** https://www.telenav.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Telenav is a connected-car and location-based services company that powers in-vehicle navigation (VIVID NAV), infotainment (VIVID IVI), and in-car commerce (VIVID COMMERCE) for automotive partners including Daimler, Ford, GM, Toyota, and Xpeng. Its developer surface centers on the Entity Service REST API for location-aware semantic search, auto-suggest predictions, entity detail lookup, and discovery including EV charge-station search, alongside partner-distributed navigation and driver-intelligence SDKs documented at docs.telenav.com and open-source Java tooling on Maven Central.

## Kin Score — 42.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 45.1 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 71.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 33.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 32.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Telenav Entity Service REST API** — Location-based semantic search for the connected car - onebox search with category, brand, corridor, polygon, and bounding-box filters, reverse geocoding, EV charge-station sear...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Telenav MCP Server**

## Security (2)

- **Telenav Authentication** — apiKey/requestSignature · 3 schemes
- **Telenav Domain Security** — HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Mapping, Navigation, Location, Search, Automotive, Connected Cars, EV Charging, Points of Interest

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/telenav/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.