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C3 Technologies' 3D Mapping Looks Freaking Amazing
By Rain Noe - Nov 02, 2011
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.
Rain Noe
Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.
4 Comments
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They were recently acquired by no one other than Apple. Google it, it's big news.!Report as spam
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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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Anyone here ever heard of Nokia Maps? http://maps.nokia.com
They have this technology already built in, quite sweet!!Report as spam -
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.!Report as spam
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