The oft-quoted saying “all models are wrong, but some are useful” is a tounge-in-cheek way of saying that at some level, tools we use to predict how the world behaves will differ from r… ...

Best of all, most handheld GPS devices for your car are now very affordable; it’s just a matter of picking the right one for ...

Silicon Valley startup Civil Maps creates detailed street-level maps of cities using vector-based graphics, letting cars determine their position based on distance to known objects.

User-generated data may be the answer to the GPS navigation industry's problem of outdated maps on user devices. According to Ed Parsons, Google's geospatial technologist, the reason users ...

GPS device maps typically two years old User-generated data may be the answer to the problem of users encountering inaccurate maps on their GPS navigation devices, say industry voices.

Yesenia D’Alessandro loaded a GPS tracking app on her cellphone and trudged into a remote Hawaii forest, joining more than 100 other volunteers looking for a missing hiker.

Using GPS instead of maps is the most consequential exchange of technologies in history Maps can’t be hacked. GPS can be. We’ll pay for this one day ...

Howdy, Just curious if these notebooks would have something like a Windows Phone that lets you have offline maps running along with turn by turn directions.

Reliance on GPS erodes our ability to build our own cognitive maps, changing technology and messing with our minds ...

So while the Global Positioning System (GPS) definately was born of military applications; GPS applications in the civilian sector has expanded beyond anyones wildest imagination. Heck, I normally ...