Lower power wide area network (LPWAN) provider Actility has announced a deal with Here, the automotive-focused mapping platform that has major IoT ambitions. This will see Actility use Here’s Open Location Platform (OLP) to augment location services, which it offers as part of its ThingPark network platform. Fellow LPWAN provider Sigfox is also a Here customer, as of June, and the two deals indicate Here has an opportunity to become a default platform for location-aware services on these wide area machine-to-machine networks, which target sectors like smart cities and public utilities. This is a nice win for Here, which should also help flesh out the OLP. Currently, cars using Here’s mapping systems are the main source of data to refresh…