20.07.2013 17:05 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple acquires transit navigation firm HopStop

Apple is certainly beefing up its Mapping team with some interesting and exciting acquisitions. Earlier today we reported that Apple had acquired a Canadian mapping start-up called Locationary. Locationary harvests crowd sourced data to deliver what All Things D termed a "Wikipedia for local business listings." Now comes word via Bloomberg that Apple has also acquired HopStop.com, a public transit app which shows users in hundreds of cities how to get to and fro via public transit. Indeed, one of the glaring omissions in Apple's

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