3 March 2010
Garmin, WebTech and SAP join forces
SAP's Move exhibit, which has as its centrepiece an electric Mini(R), will include a working demonstration of the latest generation of WebTech's GPS Locator(TM) connected to a Garmin nuvi(R) Satellite Navigation Device (sat nav), which report precise vehicle location data via cellular networks to the driver and a back-end software application.
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1 February 2010
Try using a cell-phone gps. No comparison to a Garmin.
"Our experience has taught us that software-only solutions can be limited because of hardware features such as GPS antenna performance, interference issues, and design compromises that make for a less than optimal navigation experience," a Garmin spokesperson said.
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5 January 2010
Hate Your GPS's Voice? Garmin Lets You Record Your Own
Voice commands can be recorded for any of Garmin's standard instructions, such as "Enter Roundabout" and "Make a U-turn." Users can also share customized voices with each other, which I bet would make for some great pranks -- "Turn left! No, wait, turn right! Actually, you'd better just turn around. I'm lost. Sigh.
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4 December 2009
Manhole Navigation Concept Is Taking Over?
The Map Hole is a pretty simple urban navigation tool that places bearings and travel times to popular destinations on manhole covers. I suppose the thinking goes that manhole covers are an existing template that could easily be used to provide a second function. Of course, as several Yanko commentors point out, manhole covers tend to be in the middle of the street where you probably shouldn't be standing around figuring out which way to walk. And then there's the issue of what happens when the cover is removed and placed back completely at random, rendering the directions more harm than good.
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10 November 2009
New Garmin GPS Accessory Taps Engine Data, Encourages Green Driving
So long as the vehicle has an OBD-II diagnostics port (and most vehicles from the mid-'90s onward do), Garmin's ESP module can parlay vehicle information into a display on the GPS unit's screen. The device monitors acceleration, braking, speed, and fuel consumption, and gives drivers an overall "green" score.
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8 November 2009
It is all in the mind anyway!
In recent years, working mostly with laboratory rats, they have discovered additional types of neurons in or near the hippocampus known as grid cells, head-direction cells and border cells.
Taken together, "these cells form a map of the environment," said Edvard Moser, a leading expert on brain mapping at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.
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28 October 2009
Google Does It Again?
As reported on the official Google Mobile Blog. Please read on.
Since 2005, millions of people have relied on Google Maps for mobile to get directions on the go. However, there's always been one problem: Once you're behind the wheel, a list of driving directions just isn't that easy to use. It doesn't tell you when your turn is coming up. And if you miss a turn? Forget it, you're on your own.
Today we're excited to announce the next step for Google Maps for mobile: Google Maps Navigation (Beta) for Android 2.0 devices.
This new feature comes with everything you'd expect to find in a GPS navigation system, like 3D views, turn-by-turn voice guidance and automatic rerouting. But unlike most navigation systems, Google Maps Navigation was built from the ground up to take advantage of your phone's Internet connection.
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5 September 2009
It is what is in the mind that matters!
As a registered offender, Garrido was required to wear an electronic ankle bracelet to track his movements. But East Palo Alto Police Chief Ron Davis said that proved to have no value in deterring him from his alleged crime.
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7 August 2009
This is how they do it.
The three-wheeler is a sight with its long pole holding nine cameras, a GPS, a computer and a generator. But the contraption tooling around the French capital needs all that gear to do its job - adding three-dimensional images to Google's Street View Maps.
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17 July 2009
Talk about getting your own back!
Two men and a 17-year-old girl are in custody after Sevier County deputies tracked the GPS in a stolen TV to south Knoxville.
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25 June 2009
GPS satellites need replacement?
The timely replacement of aging GPS satellites was a major concern of the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) in a May report and testimony before U.S. House subcommittee
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27 May 2009
Garmin saves you money?
The ecoRoute software update just released by Garmin for its current and upcoming units lets drivers select the most fuel-efficient route to save petrol and thereby reduce their vehicle's carbon footprint.
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20 April 2009
An alternative.
GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints, including GPX files), street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you've been, plan where you're going, or visualize geographic data (business locations, scientific observations, events, customers, real estate, geotagged photos, "GPS drawing," etc.).
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6 March 2009
Do you know where you're going too?
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. The maps are created using data from portable GPS devices, aerial photography and other free sources. Both rendered images and the vector dataset are available for download under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence.
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9 February 2009
Time in a bottle?
But why go to so much trouble to build ever more precise clocks? Does it make a difference if a clock drifts by 1 second in a billion years or in 10 billion? Yes, says Gill. For one thing, a clock accurate to a second over the age of the cosmos would allow tests of whether physical laws and constants have varied over the universe's history (see "An inconstant constant"). "If they have, that would be pretty Earth-shattering," says Gill.
And it is not just fundamental physics that could benefit. Upgrading GPS to optical-clock accuracy could track moving objects in real time to an accuracy of substantially better than a metre, rather than the tens of metres now possible. That is precise enough to moot technologies such as automated motorway driving, or landing aircraft without human intervention.
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9 January 2009
About time too.
A Russian Proton-M rocket was launched into space on Thursday with three new satellites for Moscow's Glonass navigation system, aimed at competing with US and European systems, a report said.
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