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C3 Technologies' 3D Mapping Looks Freaking Amazing

By Rain Noe - November 2, 2011

in Tech

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.

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Anon

11 years ago

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They were recently acquired by no one other than Apple. Google it, it's big news.
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Niklas

11 years ago

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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")

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Sean

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Anyone here ever heard of Nokia Maps? http://maps.nokia.com

They have this technology already built in, quite sweet!
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Andrew Liebchen

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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.
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