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BT Trackit
British Telecomm wants to make sure your car doesn’t drive away without you…if you live in the UK. To this end they offer the BT Trackit system which, once installed, […]
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Community Mapping Project in San Jose, Ca
A project will be getting underway this winter to map 19 poor and underserved communities in San Jose. This is the continuation of a community mapping project begun in 2003. […]
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ViewRanger : 3D landscapes on your mobile phone
Once again, something cool for people in the UK. ViewRanger 1.0 is a mapping application for mobile phones that gives you a 3D landscape display as an interface for accessing […]
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Pioneer’s Raku-Navi car navigation and A/V systems with 30GB HDD – Engadget
It is true that Japan gets all of the great toys first, but sometimes I think it would be better not to know about them. Engadget provides a brief description […]
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General, Navigation, WebMapping
In-car navigation devices – one man’s tale of addiction
Chris Ayres of the London Times has written a pretty funny article about the irresistible lure of in-car navigation devices and other digital navigation aids, and the chaos that ensues […]
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Air Force launches new GPS IIR satellite – Engadget – www.engadget.com
On Sept 25 a new GPS satellite was launched which was the first of eight new GPS satellites. More information is available via Telematics Journal Via Engadget – Air Force […]
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GPS for tracking panda mating behavior
That’s right, a joint project between Chinese and US zoological institutes will be using GPS to track pandas in the wild to learn more about their sex habits. I guess […]
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Pay-As-You-Go GPS
A British company is rolling out (no pun intended) a Pay-as-you-go GPS/Navigation system for cell phones. The vision is for it to be used by motorists in an ad hoc […]
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Real-time Ship Tracking
IBM and Maersk (Danish shipping company) announced they are teaming up on a project to provide real-time wireless tracking for cargo ships, via a device attached to individual cargo containers. […]
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Paying your highway tolls via satellite?
I just saw this article on Geocommunity. Apparently , a private company called Mapflow is teaming up with the Dublin Transportation Office (Ireland) to do a feasibility study on the […]
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