Revisit UpNext 3D Cities, identify the original iPhone app, see its historical screenshot, and learn how the team joined Amazon.

UpNext 3D Cities was an early iPhone and iPad mapping app from UpNext, LLC . Our old listing at App Store ID 312759829 described searchable city maps built around three-dimensional streets and buildings. This archive guide identifies that original app and explains where the team went.

What UpNext offered on iPhone

The June 2010 snapshot of our UpNext listing names New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Washington, DC and Austin among its mapped cities. Users could tap and search the maps rather than treating them as static pictures.

The captured version 1.6 notes describe added San Francisco coverage, elevation in San Francisco and New York, bus maps in San Francisco and improvements to the iPad version. They also mention trees in the New York map for iPhone 3GS and iPad users.…