The company C3 hit the Apple network, waiting for 3D-maps for iOS

As Apple has already opened, that the acquisition of technology start-ups promises us the opportunity to introduce new advanced technologies in its mobile operating system. This was the case with Siri. Now it became known that not so long ago, Apple purchased and the Swedish company C3 Technologies, which creates 3D-maps based on aerial photography.

One can guess that in this case, plotting heads "apple" of the company. In iOS should have their "card" that would compete with Google Maps. It seems that the team C3 is able to perform such a task Apple's, judging by the presentations, its engineers during the exhibition CES 2011. After all, the three-dimensional image is not only the models of buildings and major attractions, but also any object 20 cm in height, created on the basis of technologies of C3, is really impressive. (This is not a two-dimensional or vector maps from Google.)

C3 was bought by some big American company earlier this year, as reported by many sources. No one knew exactly what the corporation, though assumptions about Apple were still, according to TechCrunch ( http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/29/apple-revealed-as-purchaser-of-mapping-tech-company-c3/). Now it is certain that the team of engineers of C3 called «Sputnik», working at home in Sweden over the maps for iOS itself, means in this part of Apple's team.