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Apple’s Transit adds public transit details to Maps
Apple has detailed its transportation efforts at WWDC 2015, kicking off its discussion by saying that its Maps gets 5 billion user requests every week, and that it trumps the next leading mapping app...
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HERE thinks 3D ghost trains could reassure city folk
HERE may be busy fettling its smartphone software as well as courting potential buyers, but it still has time to cook up concepts for future transit apps. Nokia's mapping and navigation team already...
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HERE’s common sensor language could steer self-driving cars
Nokia HERE is hoping to get connected cars speaking a common language, relying on collaborative mapping to help self-driving cars figure out a route. The Car-to-Cloud interface specification has been...
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Google Maps will soon highlight US railroad crossings during navigation
While it's hard to image there could be any remaining road data left that could be added to Google Maps for improvement, it turns out there is, and it could making using the service for navigation...
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Uber nabs Microsoft workers and assets in deal
It’s no secret Uber has been moving to nab itself some mapping tech, and so its latest announcement isn’t too surprising: Uber will be acquiring some Bing assets from Microsoft, in particular 100...
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Bing Maps: big redesign brings predictive routing, more features
Microsoft has completely redesigned Bing Maps, it has announced, doing so from a place of ample user feedback and big ambitions. The updated maps are currently in a preview that is available to anyone...
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Nokia HERE for Android public beta launched
Nokia has announced its HERE for Android public beta, allowing Android users (most of them, anyway) to join its public beta group for access to the mapping app’s newest features. As with other public...
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Nokia HERE sale tipped: Audi, Daimler and BMW to seal deal soon
Nokia has spent several years focusing on its HERE maps and the related technology, and for a small period of that time it has been working to offload the business onto someone else. Uber reportedly...
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Google partners with Aclima to map air quality with Street View cars
Google's Street View cars are great at providing detailed maps and imagery of roads and intersections, but what if they could collect more data to add to their maps, like the quality of air in an area?...
View ArticleGerman car consortium ready to pay for Nokia’s HERE maps [UPDATE]
If this latest bit is true, Nokia might soon finally be able to unburden itself of yet another business tangential to its new found focus in networking technology. As earlier reported, a consortium of...
View ArticleApple 3D flyovers take a trip to Europe, Japan, and Mexico
Trying to make a bigger claim on the maps and navigation market, Apple has extended its admittedly captivating 3D flyover feature to 21 new areas spread across Europe, Mexico, and one in Japan. Now...
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Apple just bought Apple Maps its crystal ball
Apple has quietly snapped up a mapping analytics company, as it strengthens the challenge Apple Maps presents to arch rival Google Maps. The latest acquisition is Mapsense, sources tell Re/code, a San...
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Apple Maps adds 19 cities to 3D Flyover view
While Apple Maps didn't get much attention among all the new features that debuted with iOS 9, and it may still lag behind Google Maps when it comes to popularity, Apple continues to expand and improve...
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Uber starts its street mapping project
Despite being set back in some countries thanks to state laws and a bit of politics, Uber is forging ahead with what some might see as yet another thing to take issue with the controversial...
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Apple Indoor Survey app discovered, hints at indoor positioning
A new app from Apple that snuck its way into the App Store recently has been discovered. Called Indoor Survey, the app is used for indoor positioning, or mapping out the inside of a building or venue...
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HERE’s how you prove smart cities are the future
Turned off, HERE's 3D cityscape is the sleeping San Francisco that never really exists. The white, stylized version of the California tech hub - complete with a miniature chunk of the Bay Bridge - is...
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Google Maps now offers offline navigation and search
As one of the most popular and most used navigation and mapping apps on smartphones today, it's hard to imagine Google Maps getting much better than it already is. Until, of course, you find yourself...
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Uber partners with TomTom for navigation, maps data
Uber announced a new partnership with mapping and navigation company TomTom today, allowing the ride-sharing service to strengthen the traffic and map data within its own apps. The deal is seen as...
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Google rewarding Maps reviewers with 1 TB of Drive storage
It may not be that well-known, but Google Maps actually has its own Yelp rival built right in, allowing users to leave reviews, photos, and information about restaurants, attractions, and other...
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Foursquare added as Apple Maps source for business listings
Turns Apple has recently added a new partner for supplying data to Apple Maps: Foursquare. Similar to the service Yelp, Foursquare is used to discover restaurants, shops, and tourist attractions in...
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