Back in the days before US freedom was given up to the Taliban and others who have already won the “Global War on Terror”, we used to have a great institution here in the US called the Gumball Rally.  You’ve seen movies about it I’m sure, but the actual event ran coast to coast for [...]

This analysis discusses the accident sequence, cockpit systems, tracking of Gulf of Mexico helicopter flights, the lack of adequate CVR information for this accident investigation, and the lack of FDR data for helicopter operations.
You can read the whole report here:

OK its Sunday morning here in Colorado and while the rest of the world [...]

Here’s a good example of the power of mapping combined with precise locations of events. Not such an amusing set of events, since it’s the map of homicide locations in New York City, but a very useful illustration of the power of place.
As a long time NYPD fan I was interested in running a year’s [...]

By Emily J. Minor
Palm Beach Post Columnist
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Parents today are scared, and here’s how I know this.
The Sprint Family Locator plan. The Sprint Family Locator plan, introduced earlier this month and billed as the first wireless “location-based system,” basically attaches a global positioning device to your child’s cellular telephone so that you [...]

GPS Tracking has more uses than I can enumerate, or in this case, that I can even imagine. Now I don’t care if you agree with prostitution or you are mortified by it … I just report the news … and if you read through to the end you will see why the thoughts [...]

I felt like titling this post as “Chickenshit” Pennsylvania governor, but I
figured if I did I might get some flack .. or a libel suit. Never the less,
this is disturbing news and a prime indication of how our government officials
continually show lack of resolve and take the easy way out, instead of doing the
jobs [...]

Of course this blog is mainly about GPS tracking technology and business. Since the author has been involved in the technical and implementation side of GPS for years, one could hardly expect it not to be.
But if you’re in business, there’s a lot more to tracking than just mysterious ones and zeros flitting through [...]