Apple Buys Company to Add Killer 3D to Its Maps

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For the preceding few years , Apple has been hammering aside at building its own single-valued function platform to stir the yoke of Google Maps . It just take another step toward get together its cartographical Frankenstein demon bybuying up C3 Technologies , which assemble hyper - realistic 3D mapping and mix them with more traditional 2D maps and photos .

C3 creates devilishly detailed maps that areaccurate to within six inches , and has really nifty flyover views , which are sort of like a Hulked - up version of Google ’s recent rollout , Helicopter aspect . It was in reality sold almost three months ago , but at the timethe buyer was a mystery . folk had already been guessing it was Apple , but now we know .

https://gizmodo.com/google-maps-helicopter-view-is-like-a-sweet-magic-carpe-5845575

C3 Technologies is the third mapping company Apple ’s picked up in as many years . In 2009 , itbought Placebase , which specialized in customization and layering information on map . Then last year it boughtPoly9 , a Google Earth - same project .

https://gizmodo.com/apple-buys-their-very-own-maps-company-see-ya-google-5371694

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Apple has a history of only buy companies that it fully stand for to use . The obvious example is itspurchase of Siri last year , which is now one of the key feature article of the novel iPhone 4S. But also look at itspurchase of P.A. Semi in 2008 , which engender the A4 and A5 chips that have power the last few generation of Io devices . There ’s a design here . And between the three chromosome mapping companies and thecrowd - source traffic servicewe know Apple ’s working on , it surely looks like Cupertino ’s preparation to make war with Google Maps with a patchwork quilt function robot of its own . [ 9to5mac ]

https://gizmodo.com/why-apple-just-snapped-up-siri-a-voice-search-company-5526479

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