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by karussell 3572 days ago
Not sure what stack exactly they use under the hood, but we have created a sophisticated, very fast but similar algorithm implemented in Java.

Bonus: everything is open source: https://github.com/graphhopper/map-matching including web API, routing engine, easy setup (no DB involved), simple demo UI, ...

Only disadvantage I see: we currently do not support online map matching but this will surely come.

BTW: kalman filters are very similar to our approach (hidden markov model).

BTW2: Their FAQ is ridiculous: "Do you have competitors? No..." There are many companies with tracking and also open source products ...