Location data company Here Technologies and geospatial software provider Esri have signed a three-year agreement to jointly develop location-based analytics and visualisation tools designed to support artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The companies announced the deal at the Esri User Conference in San Diego, California.
The partnership combines Here’s map, traffic and mobility data with Esri’s ArcGIS platform, aiming to make live and historical geospatial data more accessible to engineering teams and AI systems working within analytics workflows.
Extending a two-decade partnership
Here and Esri have worked together for more than 20 years on projects involving location data. The companies say the new agreement builds on that relationship, with the aim of helping customers combine AI-ready geospatial analytics with their existing ArcGIS environments, reducing the complexity of integrating and operationalising location data at scale.
“For over two decades, Here has partnered with Esri to deliver trusted geospatial insights,” says Chris Handley, senior vice-president of product management at Here Technologies. “As organisations explore new AI use cases, we can help them more easily access and analyse location data, enabling faster insights and more informed decisions.”
According to Richard Cooke, corporate director of global business development at Esri, organisations are looking for analytics solutions that connect authoritative data, intuitive mapping and scalable decision support. “By bringing together HERE’s trusted location data and the analytical power of ArcGIS, we will help customers extend what they can do within existing workflows and support emerging AI applications,” he says.
Target sectors include transport and logistics
The companies say the combined capabilities are intended for organisations across transportation and logistics, the public sector, automotive and high-tech industries, helping them analyse real-world movement patterns and apply the resulting insights to planning, operations and decision-making.
Built on ArcGIS, Esri’s geospatial platform, the new visualisation and analytics tools are designed to give AI systems and engineering teams access to live and historical location data, supporting what the companies describe as agentic workflows alongside conventional reporting and decision-making tasks.
New data suite underpins the partnership
The data suite underpinning the new capabilities, Here GIS Data Suite, was introduced by Here in 2025 to provide a curated dataset for ArcGIS environments. It will serve as the foundational layer for the analytics tools developed under the new agreement.
