Magellan has scored a first in the GPS world with the acquisition of maps from National Geographic.
However, returning to the first day saves the player's progress and major accomplishments permanently, such as the acquisition of maps, masks, songs, and weapons.
Google has ramped up its efforts to enhance what it is providing to the world — both through its own Google Maps upgrades but by way of billion-dollar acquisitions of mapping technology companies like Waze.
This is similar to Nokia's acquisition of digital map maker NAVTEQ in 2008 to help add map technology to their devices.
[Update: Snap Map was based on Snapchat's secret acquisition of social map app Zenly for $250 million to $350 million. Read our full story on Snap's acquisition of Zenly here.].
Google recently indicated that they are taking blogs and measuring blog statistics very seriously with their acquisition of Measure Map.
Future phones will do much more, thanks to Nokia's acquisition of digital map supplier Navteq, which was completed in July.
Both JVC and Kenwood are under pressure to compete with integrated car navigation system makers such as TomTom, which announced a $2.8 billion acquisition of digital map maker Tele Atlas this week.
This pressure mapping system was connected to a laptop enabling the acquisition of pressure maps (P_M) at a frequency of 5 Hz.
Complete manual acquisition of atom mapping data for a genome-scale metabolic network is a laborious process.
