GPS
November 26, 2009 What is the Floor for GPS Prices?GPSPrices for GPS navigation devices are set to drop even lower on Black Friday with units for a Tom Tom model debuting at $59 at Wal-Mart and $99 for a Garmin model at Best Buy. With many cars now stocked with navigation devices and an increasing segment of the market using their smartphones, competition by ... read more November 25, 2009 Waze Adds Road Goodies and PrizesGPS, Location Based ServicesWaze, which relies on crowdsourcing to build its traffic and road navigation data, has started a ‘Holiday High Points Challenge’ to encourage users to drive in areas where map problems have been identified. Like the game PacMan, drivers can “eat up” presents, hammers and cherries for points as they drive around certain areas. The top ... read more Navigation by Google for the Rest of the WorldGPS, Location Based ServicesGoogle firmly set its foot into the navigation world when it announced free Google Maps Navigation for the Android 2.0 at the end of October. The device is only available for the United States and only on select phones. Forbes takes a look at the supposed relationship Google is working on with Automotive Navigation Data, ... read more October 26, 2009The Proliferation of Personal GPS Devices and Yuppie 911GPSThe radical drop in prices of GPS units means that more Americans own personal GPS units. Forrester research has found that nearly a third of all Americans use some form of personal navigation system, either an in-car navigation device, handheld GPS unit or through GPS capabilities on their mobile phones. The drop in GPS prices ... read more September 21, 2009The Revenge of Google MapsGPS, Web MappingDave of Sheepfilms has made a whimsical short video about the “dangers” of using Google Maps and GPS. (Via The Map Room and Gadfly) read more...September 2, 2009Personal Navigation Devices to be OutsmartedGPSMarket research firm iSuppli is predicting that the use of GPS navigation by smartphone users will outpace the use of personal navigation devices and that by the year 2011, all smartphones will have fully functional navigation capabilities: Previously, handsets were not seen as a threat to the dominance of the PND due to poor battery ... read more Lag in Street Data for GPS UnitsGPSZDNet Asia has an article about the lag time in updating street data in GPS units. The article cites Ed Parsons, Google’s geospatial technologist, explaining, “the reason users encounter inaccurate road layouts and landmark placements on their GPS devices is that it takes a long time getting updated maps to users. From the mapping of ... read more August 20, 2009Running For a DrawGPSThe New York Times has an interesting article about runners who “draw” pictures with their GPS units while out for a run. The article profiles Tomasz Berezinski who “started running, bought a GPS device and turned his body into a brush and the city into his canvas.“ The fad isn’t new, the site GPSDrawing started ... read more Walking in CirclesGPSUsing volunteers strapped with GPS units, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany, tested out the innate navigational ability of hikers under multiple conditions. Published in the journal Current Biology, researchers Jan Souman and Marc Ernst looked at the walking pattern of nine hikers placed in the Sahara desert in ... read more August 19, 2009 American Red Cross Uses Trimble Technology and RDMS to Speed Hurricane Disaster ReliefFeatures, GPSSince 1881, the American Red Cross has been the United State’s premier emergency response organization. In addition to offering neutral humanitarian care to the victims of war, the American Red Cross also distinguishes itself by aiding victims of devastating natural disasters, from floods to earthquakes to hurricanes. Each year, in communities large and small, victims ... read more |
