GPS News

Q : I drove with my teenage son to an event in Wisconsin and realized that he relies on GPS to drive.

A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has offered Russia her country's participation in the ambitious Glonass global positioning project.

CloudMade is gearing up to release a set of tools that will enable people to quickly and easily contribute to the OpenStreetMap project.

A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers.

Much of the Amazon basin is a mottled patchwork of pasture, cultivated farmland and a dwindling area of native forest, but the government is making strides in reversing the trend.

America has seen its last Lost Generation. Thanks to an invisible armada of incessantly broadcasting satellites, collectively called the Global Positioning System, and to the explosive proliferation of GPS receivers in gadgets from dashboard map units to cellphones to dog collars, even the cartographically clueless are good to go.

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. , the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced the availability of Custom Maps , a free, simple process that helps users transform the maps they currently have - " in paper or digital form - " into downloadable maps for compatible Garmin GPS outdoor handhelds.

NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE -- In an industry first, DataArt , a high-end software development company with headquarters in New York and R&D centers in Eastern Europe, announced today that it has completed back-end development of GeoLife's Navmii turn-by-turn navigation application for the iPod touch.

The owner of a Midtown Memphis bar says he robbed a bank because his business was in the a oetubes.a According to court records, Gregg Drew robbed the Trust One Bank in East Memphis Friday, October 13, 2009.

ZST Digital Networks, Inc. , a major developer, manufacturer, and supplier of digital and optical network equipment to cable system operators in China, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Xing Yang Security Service Co., Ltd.

Birds Eye Global Tracking, LLC, Clearwater, FL, takes top spot in GPS tracking device comparison test for tracking children and adults with special needs, due to its superior indoor tracking capabilities.

Want to fly your plane or drive your car using GPS signals, but finding that your receiver just isn't accurate enough to make things work? Well, MAKE subscriber Bruce Mueller writes in to point us at an impressive solution: an open-source real time kinematic GPS receiver.

Antoine Jones was the target of a cocaine trafficking investigation when federal agents stuck an electronic tracking device on his Jeep Cherokee, secretly following the vehicle's every move for 24 hours a day.

A western Pennsylvania man is trying to use data from his GPS to prove he wasn't speeding.

GeoLife and PosiMotion have introduced Navmii, a personal turn-by-turn navigation application for the iPod touch.

For more than a year, a $400,000 system that pinpoints Fire Department vehicles on Milwaukee streets has been foiled by the streets themselves.

November 10, 2009 - Topcon has received an order for 90 GPS receivers from the Geographical Survey Institute , an affiliate of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism .

The XXL 540S provides TomTom's usual impressive navigation features, and adds a roomy 5-inch screen.

Avago Technologies , a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today introduced the industry's first highly integrated miniature GPS front-end modules that combine a film bulk acoustic resonator filter with a high-gain, low noise amplifier that offers superior performance levels.