Archive for December, 2005

MCH to use GIS to track garbage vans

It’s not my job to poke fun at anyone, least of all a large city in another country, but go listen to the water cooler or break room conversations and see if the subject of India, extreme poverty, lack of education, etc., etc. don’t come up along with the usual complaints about outsourced jobs.
Are [...]

Free GPS-style devices can help to locate lost seniors

A nice article to begin our end of year wrap up. All year long we’ve been listening to the issues regarding privacy and GPS, using GPS to track criminals, using GPS to drive business profits and all sorts of necessary but not necessary personal and people-related GPS subjects.
Here’s a county, though, who is looking [...]

EU sends up 1st of 30 satellites in GPS network - This means?

Well is this the greatest news of the century for users of satellite-based navigation and tracking systems? Or is it another piece of EU (read France, the big sponsor on this) self-aggrandizement?
Yes.
The USAF built, launched and operated NAVSTAR GPS system has been function to serve the civilian world for years now. My tax [...]

Cabbie slain as plan for GPS Fleet Tracking finalized

So, you have a livery business. everything conspires against you. fuel goes out of sight, good drivers are hard to come by, customers are hard to deal with an price conscious .. what’s a business owner to do?
Well this guy’s boss knew what to do, but sadly, he didn’t get it done in [...]

GPS tracking as a People Tool?

So, what did you think? This guy has some great ideas, I thought. Did you happen to look at Point #4, Recognizing Good Performance? this is a management technique advocated by nearly every business educator who ever lived. Easy to say. Not always so easy to do. If you [...]

The Death Spiral — Is this Your County?

Well isn’t this a lovely news item for Fremont county residents to wake up to? Sheriff Beicker has been place din a horrible position here. His budget has been trimmed so he has to ask his deputies to patrol less. Crime is relentless, so this will undoubtedly result in more crime, the [...]

A Great Idea But Implemented In A Silly Way

Here’s another example of a technology being mangled to provide (halfway) a useful service, while meanwhile ignoring a superior, free, world-wide technology that could do the job much better.
The described system will give progress checks on children passing know points. This is great, until the child wanders off or is enticed or kidnapped to [...]

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