{"id":2479,"date":"2015-05-17T22:14:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T06:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2015-05-17T22:14:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T06:14:29","slug":"apple-has-acquired-a-company-focused-on-hyper-accurate-gps-to-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/apple-has-acquired-a-company-focused-on-hyper-accurate-gps-to-improve\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple has acquired a company focused on hyper-accurate GPS to improve &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has acquired Coherent Navigation, a company focused on hyper-accurate GPS, in an effort to improve its mapping capabilities, MacRumors reports. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coherent Navigations High Integrity GPS system is supposedly so granular\u00a0that it can provide accurate location information to within a few centimeters.<\/p>\n<p>Its no secret that Apple Maps has long struggled with providing accurate location information since phasing out Google Maps in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Coherent Navigations technology could theoretically be used to significantly enhance Apples Maps product, though Apple has not confirmed how Coherent or its employees will be integrated into the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans,&#8221; an Apple spokesperson told the New York Times in an email.<\/p>\n<p>However, several Coherent employees have already begun working for Apple. Former Coherent CEO Paul Lego joined the tech giant in January as part of the Apple Maps team and co-founders William Bencze and Brett Ledvina came on board last month in location engineering roles. The former Coherent website now directs to Apples servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has acquired Coherent Navigation, a company focused on hyper-accurate GPS, in an effort to improve its mapping capabilities, MacRumors reports. \u00a0 Coherent Navigations High Integrity GPS system is supposedly so granular\u00a0that it can provide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}