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What If Apple Pulled A TomTom?

Posted on 08. Oct, 2012 by .

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What if Apple Maps Pulled a TomTom? The Guardian posts about the newly released Apple Maps for iOS 6. The article points to the differences between raster and vector data models as the reason for differences in download speeds. Since everything presented on a digital screen is raster (although the data may originate from a [...]

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Why Apple Needs To Buy A Satellite Or Aerial Imaging Company

Posted on 21. Sep, 2012 by .

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As the good news about the new Apple iPhone spreads, the bad news about the mapping capabilities is similarly spreading. Solving this problem is more about imaging and less about crowd-sourced street data gathering. All of these products can exchange cloud-based mapping data – provided accurate, high quality data were used.  Google has solved this [...]

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Apple Has Aircraft That Can See Into Homes? – Oh no!

Posted on 10. Jun, 2012 by .

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Where some stories originate causes me to scratch my head. Check out ‘The spy gear which could slay Street View: Apple calls in private air force with military-grade cameras which can see INSIDE homes to create new 3D map” at the Daily Mail. The article goes on to say, “will be able to look inside [...]

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3D Space Between Google and Apple Heats Up This Week

Posted on 04. Jun, 2012 by .

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Watch the announcements from both Google and Apple over the next week regarding 3D content and new services. There has been a lot of debate and speculation on what can be expected, and it all looks promising from a business and consumer perspective. A short article from SPY Ghana laid out the basic arguments and [...]

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Apple and 3D Mapping: Summarising and Speculating On Where This Leads

Posted on 14. May, 2012 by .

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As many readers will probably have heard by now, the Internet is alive with speculation about the future of 3D mapping and what role Apple will play.  Much of the talk is within the realm of possibility for a number of reasons including, Apple’s recent acquisition of mapping company’s Poly9, C3 Technologies and Placebase. From [...]

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