Getting lost while driving is close to a a lost art. With GPS in your car's navigation system, in the portable navigation device on your dashboard, or in your smartphone, it's easy to pull up a map ...

HAMBURG — In Cyprus, people can run on water and swim through airports — at least according to their electronic devices. A ...

Drop-in Defense Advanced GPS Receiver replacement features M-Code protection and full-color graphical user interface NavGuide™ is the GPS receiver designed with the user in mind. (Credit: BAE Systems) ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...

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 reality in some ...

Google Maps and Waze are spearheading the mobile navigation software space, and every little bug they hit could be bad news for lots of drivers. Given both are owned by Google, most users out there ...

Imagine waking up, checking your phone for directions, and seeing that your map thinks you’re standing on an airport runway hundreds of kilometers away. Or picture being a pilot mid-flight, suddenly ...

The world of iOS-based GPS navigation apps has matured since we last reviewed this category, and the situation has improved. These apps are designed to mimic standalone navigation hardware, those dash ...

GPS World is a business-to-business magazine, and most of our readers are engineers, surveyors and other professionals specializing in geospatial technologies. In general, we do not cover consumer ...

One of the things you have to accept as a tech writer is being on the receiving end of a never-ending stream of PR pitches. Generally, they're ill-targeted or irrelevant to the topics I actually write ...