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News in 2014 November 25, 2014

Indoor Atlas uses magnetic variation to map the great indoors

Venture Beat – HELSINKI — It’s easy to get lost in cavernous indoor spaces like shopping malls and Las Vegas casinos. Indoor Atlas is one of many tech companies racing to map indoor spaces, and it uses an approach that is similar to how turtles and lobsters navigate the oceans. The Helsinki-based startup senses magnetic variation. It […]

News in 2014 May 29, 2014

New York Times: “Mapping Our Interiors”

New York Times – May 18, 2014:  Sure, that’s your office cubicle. Your corner store. Maybe even the layout of your furniture in your living room. But that doesn’t mean that soon we won’t all be peering at it, too.  That is because two trends, location technology and crowdsourcing, may soon converge. If they do, […]