Tomas Chlebek Apple has been buying smaller companies in various ways dealing with maps and working with them since the end of 2012, when iOS 6 with Apple Maps was introduced. During the following year, 2013, they joined the largest company in the world four companies. The year 2014 marked a break in this regard - another company associated with navigation was bought by Apple only this May, it was Coherent Navigation.
Now, there is some stark information about the purchase of another company that has the potential to improve the work with maps in iOS. This start-up is called Mapsense, based in San Francisco, and its contribution to navigation is the creation of tools for the analysis and visualization of location data.
Mapsense was founded in 2013 by Erez Cohen, a former engineer at Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company. Mapsense offers the possibility to process data contained in graphical map models via the cloud. He started offering his services in May this year.
Apple itself, as usual, did not provide any information about the progress of the acquisition or its intentions to integrate the capabilities of Mapsense into its own software. However, two unspecified sources said Apple paid between $25 million and $30 million for the XNUMX-member Mapsense team.
