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James Killick: Why Did Apple get into Maps? (And how they got there) - MBM#51

Minds Behind Maps

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The Early Days of In-Vehicle Navigation Systems

This chapter discusses the challenges faced in creating a vehicle navigation system using limited resources, such as the lack of GPS availability and high capacity storage. It also highlights the invention of ETAC's navigation system as a solution to address the accuracy issues of dead reckoning.

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