The Maps application for iOS 6 has seen many avatars, as well as the laughingstock of Google Maps users – and with good reason. Tim Cook even had to apologize for the poor quality of the map data of this new service. But Apple has the means to drastically improve its offer, and if Apple Maps is still not at the level of competition, the service has undergone many improvements since.

This could still work out. Apple has confirmed to the Wall Street Journal the acquisition of sapling WiFiSLAM, created two years ago by a former Google engineer. This redemption, up to 20 million dollars (a straw to Cupertino) suggests that the manufacturer intends to add a string to the bow of his location application.

WiFiSLAM has developed a technology that, once the user is located, shows the interior of the building immediately, using the surrounding wi-fi networks. The accuracy is 2.5 meters, a little light to find themselves in the middle of a shopping center or a museum, but enough to display POIs in the middle of a crowd in a small radius. It remains to be seen what Apple developed around this technology, which could eventually compete with the function of internal plans of Google Maps.