Satellite guidance for the visually impaired
16 June 2006
A prototype satellite navigation system accurate enough to direct vision-impaired pedestrians to their destination has recently been successfully demonstrated in Madrid.

Seen from a distance, a blind man guided by his dog in the streets of Madrid seems quite sure of his way. In fact, he is not [...]

Your GPS Takes Pictures
Navman iCN 750 In-Car Navigation System
June 29, 2005
Review by: Brandon Miniman, Editor-in-Chief
INTRODUCTION
It’s a bit tough to find innovation among the sea of in-car GPS devices making their way to the market. At the core, they all do about the same thing. Navman saw this, and went to the drawing board to find [...]

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek

Jun 19, 2006 12:00 AM
Global positioning systems are getting some competition and mobile phone developer networks may feel the heat, too, from Skyhook Wireless’ Developer’s Network.
The 3-year-old wireless company aims to woo developers of location-based services with free access to its metro-area positioning system, which relies on Wi-Fi signals rather than [...]

The city of San Diego has expanded a satellite tracking system for its vehicles that has saved one department $1 million a year in operating costs.
The system was pioneered by the trash collection and recycling programs of the city’s Environmental Services Division, which began trying the technology in 2002. Now, the Metropolitan Wastewater, General Services [...]

Here’s a press release with a little more to it than meets the eye. Ordinarily I wouldn’t even make note of it … I’ve talked about GPS and golf carts before … but it ties directly too my next post, so consider this a “setup” Full text here

Gary Player and Government Officials Honor [...]

Here are some further thoughts on taxis, taxi drivers, GPS and some of the rights and wrongs.

Some years ago I took a trip to San Antonio and hopped in a cab at the airport to go to my hotel. The driver, and older fellow (like me entered some information by touch screen onto [...]

This week we’re going to do something a little different here at the SatViz GPS Blog. A few weeks back I blogged a couple entries about a GPS tracking project being implemented in the city of Philadelphia. See here: And here: And here: Two things seemed noteworthy about this project:
The first [...]