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Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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Post by amir_karbasi »

ymarkov wrote: post #17
amir_karbasi wrote: post #11

Really cool! We're currently using map and web searches in our agent to gather this info for our tool. Does it support an approximate address? For example, if a plaza can have multiple street numbers, do I need to make a request for each possible address or would it find a certain business with an approximate address?

Thanks! Our initial API works as follows - you provide POI/business name and its address and we are telling you if it exists or not. So if you are looking to check if the plaza is existing, you just need to provide its supposed address. If it is a business within plaza, then an address of that business is required

Let me rephrase my question. How exact must the address input be? Do I need to include unit numbers? What if the street number is off by a few due to the layout of a plaza?

Using Maps or Web Search APIs, I can find approximate locations for certain businesses based on my input. Can your API work in a similar manner?

Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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Post by dk8996 »

We work in this space and have found that, very often, the realities on the ground do not match the digital information, especially when it comes to geospatial data, where businesses exist, what businesses actually exist, and their status. At Rwazi, we have millions of users helping collect on-the-ground data.

Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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Post by ymarkov »

bravura wrote: post #23

Bog-standard LLM mapping is terrible and I recently added Google Maps to my personal agent to remediate this. I'd love to try Voygr for fun. Is there a skill defined that I could just swap in Voygr

Google also doesn't tell you if a place exists - it just returns the list of possible places which it thinks could be relevant. We have instructions defined for agents to onboard https://github.com/voygr-tech/dev-tools

Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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Post by ymarkov »

maelito wrote: post #24

I'm not sure I understand : how can you product help for opening times or pictures of my local boulangerie ? What kind of data sources will help you automate the reviewing of its attributes ?

We are not providing opening times yet - we just check if place is permanently closed or not. But it is in the works under our experimental enrichment API (which is not yet open to public)

Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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Post by ymarkov »

amir_karbasi wrote: post #21
ymarkov wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Our initial API works as follows - you provide POI/business name and its address and we are telling you if it exists or not. So if you are looking to check if the plaza is existing, you just need to provide its supposed address. If it is a business within plaza, then an address of that business is required

Let me rephrase my question. How exact must the address input be? Do I need to include unit numbers? What if the street number is off by a few due to the layout of a plaza? Using Maps or Web Search APIs, I can find approximate locations for certain businesses based on my input. Can your API work in a similar manner?

It is supposed to work if you even don't include unit number or a house number is a bit off. We analyze other signals too, so if the address is a bit off, the API is still supposed to mark a place as existing
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