Portable GPS devices, online mapping services and smart phones make folding paper maps fairly obsolete for travel directions. Most new mapping devices use one of two main databases, so the results ...

David Van Sickle, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is developing a GPS add-on for ...

Can blockchain-based location mapping replace GPS mapping? The global positioning system (GPS) calculates a person’s location, merges it with their environment, and displays it live on their mobile ...

While state-of-the-art navigation has become a must-have these days, not everybody is a big fan of Google Maps, so stand-alone GPS units like those from Garmin still have a very successful niche of ...

A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the May 2021 issue of GPS World magazine. The NCS Nova GNSS simulator now fully supports the simulation of Galileo Open ...

On a trip to Oregon's Willamette Valley in the spring of 2010, I was using the Google-powered Maps app on an iPhone 3GS to hunt down wineries while my friend drove. That's farm country, and driving on ...

LaunchPoint upgrades SiteRight with GPS mapping, embedding survey-grade GNSS/RTK data into 811 workflows to boost safety, accuracy, and damage prevention. LaunchPoint Software Systems has announced a ...

LIBERTY, W.Va. — When paramedics and other first responders get a call, they need to be get where they are going quickly, but that can be hard to do in rural areas. That was a problem in Putnam County ...