Apple Buys An Indoor Mapping Company, Having Finished With The Outdoors

Indoor mapping is the future, and this sounds cool. Having done a bang-up job with its own regular mapping app (oh wait), Apple has, according to the New York Times, acquired an indoor mapping company. Indoor maps are promising, but still young technology; we've been predicting their rise for quite a while now. The idea is that large, complicated indoor areas, like malls, airports, casinos, and public transit hubs, would be mapped the same way that cities are. It's a lot trickier than outdoor ma...