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Finding your way with Chinese GPS
Blog As far as I could make out, the article was a warning to everyone to be on the look out for subversives and spies using GPS to illicitly map parts of the Chinese heartlands, with the intention of preparing for an invasion.
[February 20, 2008, 20:05]
Reports of GPS' death are greatly exaggerated
Blog The latest GPS satellite is in trouble, which has triggered another round of the "Satnav is going to die! But it turns out that the satellite - GPS IIR-20(M) - isn't in very much trouble at all, and neither is the whole system.
[June 19, 2009, 12:29]
CSR absorbs SiRF GPS chip company
Blog CSR, formerly Cambridge Silicon Radio, has bought SiRF, an American GPS chip company, in a £91 million share transaction giving SiRF shareholders 27 percent of the new enlarged CSR. SiRF is best known for its SiRFstar range of GPS chips, which are...
[February 10, 2009, 10:12]
Air Semiconductor gets snappy with GPS
Blog Exciting GPS news from Air Semiconductor, a start-up hailing from Swindon. A group of old industry lags with a serious track record in GPS and radio chippery, Air has cooked up Airwave-1, a design that takes between 20 to 100 times less power than...
[March 10, 2009, 12:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Even if you don't have a GPS satellite navigation receiver, that's likely to change in the next year or so. One of the little snippets that got mentioned in an aside at the Intel Developer Forum was that the price of GPS chips is dropping...
[March 18, 2002, 9:26]
MWC: Nokia kicks things off
Blog Nokia's unveiled a widely-trailed clutch of phones - no, no Nok-iPhone - including the 6210 Navigator, which has pedestrian-focussed GPS augmented with a compass (I guess flux-gate, but don't know yet) and accelerometer.
[February 11, 2008, 9:07]
Invention is not the mother of necessity
Blog Yesterday the National Physical Laboratory played host to a conference on the subject of GPS (or any global navigation satellite system) in phones. Let's face it, at the end of the day it's all about the money, and right now no-one can see how to...
[January 19, 2007, 9:43]
Galileo, Galileo
Blog The EU's answer to GPS seems to be floundering a little due to those pesky and perennial factors of funding and infighting. As we reported earlier this year, phone manufacturers wanting some kind of sat-nav functionality in their devices have been...
[May 10, 2007, 10:34]
Second thoughts on the Blackberry 8800
Blog Driving over the Pennines at the weekend I used a free utility that threw mobile-phone/GPS combos such as RIM's Blackberry 8800 into sharp relief. I wasn't so sure about the buit-in GPS which, while sounding great, relies on downloadable maps.
[March 7, 2007, 9:54]
We aim to SiRF
Blog Trawling through the 100th handheld spec sheet while carrying out the teethgrindly-dull-but-necessary task called 'data cleansing' prior to our exciting new launch, I couldn't help noticing that SiRF seems to have the handheld-integrated GPS...
[October 26, 2006, 15:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This is going to be the world's first civilian global positioning service, and is designed to run alongside the US military's GPS system. The Galileo and GPS satellites are close neighbours - Galileo will orbit at around 23,222 km, while GPS is...
[July 15, 2005, 19:00]
Weather Station Net-book
Blog If you don't have a GPS receiver, you can get latitude and longitude and elevation off the display of your location from Google Earth. Take an input from a GPS or a fix pulled from Google Earth or maps and then do a pull of weather information from...
[September 3, 2008, 22:03]
Acer's smartphone quartet
Blog Also sporting a 3.8-inch WVGA touch screen the F900 has built in GPS and again supports HSDPA. This time with a 2.8 inch 640 x 480 pixel screen the X960 again includes a GPS antenna and supports HSDPA.
[February 17, 2009, 14:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog While the full system will indeed have levels of service accessed through various kinds of encryption - and, like the American GPS system, the lowest level available free to the user — that isn't what's being broadcast at the moment.
[July 14, 2006, 19:15]
A good week for OpenStreetMap
Blog The SiRFStar III GPS chipset is one of the best on the market, providing accurate fixes in tricky conditions, and a rapid Time to First Fix. If accurate GPS receivers find their way into more devices -- CSR's products tend to integrate several...
[February 11, 2009, 11:14]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It was either some form of GPS testing or wireless network sniffing -- and GPS testing is pretty old hat by now. Friday 1/08/2003 Conspiracy theorists are partial to black vehicles with shady occupants doing evil deeds, even if they’ve stopped...
[August 1, 2003, 18:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This also didn't help much as only one of my friends also had a GPS — and he was a Hampstead native who knows the place like the back of a bottle of Claret. Then GPS came along, and I was able to define the precise location of the picnic site to...
[June 30, 2006, 19:45]
CloudMade Betas New Map Editing Tool
Blog Up until now, to mark a POI on OpenStreeMap, users had to record them via a GPS device and then connect that GPS device to a PC; or mark the POIs on a conventional paper map and manually input them via a PC to OpenStreetMap.org.
[December 2, 2009, 14:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Seeing as much the same job can be done by a pocket GPS these days, it's a truly awe-inspiring example of how powerful modern digital electronics actually is. Now, you can order a Garmin GPS over the Internet for a hundred dollars - even from Tehran.
[March 31, 2006, 19:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I spend a few minutes putting some mapping software onto the beast, and try to hook up my GPS. But, of course, both the Psion and the GPS have custom RS232 connectors and despite much fussing around with adaptors, cables and swearwords I end up...
[June 18, 1999, 18:23]
