The GSMA’s standards group, the 3GPP, has completed its V2X spec for the next version of the LTE standard – Release 14. The spec aims to define how LTE will be used to connect vehicles to things, in an increasingly connected world. The news comes as Here has launched its Open Location Platform – a system to crowdsource data from vehicles about road conditions and share the wealth among participants. The 3GPP notes that the V2V communications are based on the older D2D (device to device) communications that were defined as part of the ProSe services in Releases 12 and 13. With D2D, the 3GPP defined the PC5 interface, which has now been enhanced for use in vehicular applications –…