Comments on: Apple acquires C3 Technologies for next-generation 3D mapping

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:30:00 +0000

Swedish engineers, among the best there are. Only drawback is that their own country is doing such a poor job of sustaining and aiding this awesome new companies with new technology and let them being acquired by foreign interests, in the end meaning swedes miss potential new fun job openings when the venture moves abroad.

By: Benitez Burns

Benitez Burns — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:05:00 +0000

love it! ;-)

By: Benitez Burns

Benitez Burns — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:04:00 +0000

Clearly! lol! Go apple!

By: nismax2003

nismax2003 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:15:00 +0000

You can get this on Nokia phones. Right Now!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:17:00 +0000

I must have missed something…this “fly-over” feature dies NOTHING to help me location, traffic or helping – wise. I’ll stick to what’s working brilliantly for me : Google Maps.

By: joe_l

joe_l — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:35:00 +0000

A big drawback of this technology is that it won´t show sidewalk images. I use this feature in Google Maps all the time to look for certain businesses or shops along a street. This is what is really useful IMHO. This 3D technology is awesome and preety, but it can´t do that.

By: Robert Norris Hills

Robert Norris Hills — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:29:00 +0000

You realize that Google has been analising traffic data from all GPS enabled phones to display current traffic data for years right?

And you realise it’s all in realtime? I can sit in my office and watch how heavy the traffic flow on the highway is behind me all day.

Or am I the only one that uses the traffic data overlays?

P.S. This was originally targeted at the second half of the post not just the big pretty pictures. This is the second company that Apple has bought out that does the same thing. Still nothing has come of it. I guess only time will tell.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:14:00 +0000

Google buys hundreds of cars and has them drive hours all over the place, they then try to combine that with rough ground-level elevation and terrain data, and then they slowly manually model all the buildings, architecture, highways, overpasses, streets, and even signs in an entire city.

With C3, you can simply fly over an area and get all of that data in an hour or two, with resolution and accuracy under 4 inches.

By: Lon Grove

Lon Grove — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:03:00 +0000

After looking at the examples I’m in agreement with Robert Norris Hills, this doesn’t equal what Google is currently doing.

By: Rod Savoyivok

Rod Savoyivok — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:56:00 +0000

stoops.

By: Rod Savoyivok

Rod Savoyivok — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:55:00 +0000

apple didnt create the technology lol. apple and google copy each other all the time. who cares. google works with many providers of mapping technology, including NASA. google earth is awesome and apple has a long way to go before they catch up to that.

By: Smith

Smith — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:42:00 +0000

Guess you didn’t look at the examples.
Makes google look like a joke.

By: Robert Norris Hills

Robert Norris Hills — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:21:00 +0000

So. The exact same thing Google already does? – Innovation *Scoff*