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Field Assets for the iPhone
With the large number of location apps on the iPhone and other mobile devices out there, it surprises me that there are so few (handful by my account) professional quality […]
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Gadgets, general, Human Geography, Navigation, Remote Sensing
Cops Can’t Track Car with GPS Without Warrent
The Electronic Frontier Foundation had an interesting piece about two weeks ago that I just ran across. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts recently ruled that it is against their state constitution for […]
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EGNOS Goes Active
The precursor to the EU’s Galileo satellite positioning, EGNOS is now live for 27 EU states! The basic idea behind the system is to take the US’s GPS system and […]
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Major Nav companies coming to the iPhone
There has been tons of coverage of TomTom and Intermap’s foray into iPhonedom over the last week but I wanted to link to the videos highlighting the new tools. One […]
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Glympse: Attack of Cousin It’s family
Glympse is the next location sharing app to come to the surface. Though only available for Android at this time it looks like an interesting app…especially for the timer functionality. […]
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Turn-by-turn on your (i)Phone
Electronista posted suggesting that TomTom might be hiring an iPhone dev to create a turn-by-turn app for the upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS/firmware/whatever. While I am pretty sure that if TomTom […]
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general, Navigation, WebMapping
Trendwatching predicts Mapmania for 2009
Yes, I am finally back online after a week with limited internet and then a brief bout of cold/flu. I was going over this year’s predictions on all sorts of […]
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Data, general, LBS, Navigation
OSMTrack – OSM data collection on the iPhone
While looking through the new apps feed for the iPhone this morning I came across the OSMTrack app. OSMTrack is an application that allows you to use the iPhone 3G’s […]
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Gadgets, general, LBS, Navigation
GPS Signals Can Be Spoofed
Researchers are Cornell have discovered that GPS signals can be spoofed! By placing a signal near the receiving device, gradually the navigation device would accept the spoofed signal as real. […]
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Gadgets, general, Hardware, Navigation, space (not spatial)
A New GPS System…. On the Moon?
Engadget is reporting an interesting new system that’s being created. Researchers over at Ohio State University (a hop, skip, and 4 hour drive from here) are attempting to make a […]
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