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What could be better than Google Maps? C3 Technologies' stunning 3D city displays, which let you rotate, zoom and pan through the city as if you'd modeled it all on your computer. The technology, which uses footage captured from airplanes and processed through a formerly proprietary military missile-guidance system, absolutely must be seen to be believed. Check out San Francisco, starting around 2:00:
C3—which was allegedly acquired by Apple last year, with the active theory being that Cupertino is seeking to trump Google Maps—is an offshoot of aerospace company Saab AB. Here's a look at how their mapping technology is captured and processed:
At press time C3 Technologies' website was no longer live, suggested they've surely been absorbed by a larger entity.
Comments
It'd be REALLY awesome if they tied that into the tablet's accelerometer. Then, you could match the perspective to the orientation of the device to the user...like the Nintendo 3ds thingy.
Anyone here ever heard of Nokia Maps? http://maps.nokia.com
They have this technology already built in, quite sweet!
You can check it out already, its available for all the bigger cities in Sweden for example. Here is Stockholm:
http://www.hitta.se/LargeMap.aspx?var=stockholm
(Click on "3D")
They were recently acquired by no one other than Apple. Google it, it's big news.