Project Tango is one of the most important developments within Google’s ATAP (Advanced Technologies and Products) unit because it will power the firm’s next generation mapping platform, promising to help transform the online experience and location-based services. At the I/O developer conference last week, Qualcomm and SK Telecom brought Tango a step closer to its disruptive potential, announcing development platforms and an augmented reality solution. In the great battle to define the next generation web and search experience, maps and location are critical, contributing to the increasingly accurate context awareness on which many new services will rely. Whether Apple can pull itself together in this area will be a topic of hot debate at its WWDC conference next week, but…