Apple Drone Fleet to Gather Maps Data

Apple has assembled a group of robotics and data-collection experts who will use unmanned aerial vehicles — that is, drones — to obtain data for updates to its Maps app, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

Apple, Google and others in the cartography space currently collect a lot of their data using motor vehicles equipped with high-tech gear.

“That’s a very expensive and time-consuming process,” said Sam Abuelsamid, a senior research analyst at Navigant Research … MORE

TechNewsWorld | Dec. 2, 2016

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