Who: Needs GPS Tracking? Literally, anyone who is in business and has one or more vehicles that they want to change from monthly expenses to profit centers.  If you are concerned about ROI, you need tracking.  If you’re not concerned with ROI, why are you in business?  Savings and increased profits of $100 to $200 [...]

… Some transportation safety groups wonder why those “How’s my driving?” stickers can’t be placed on school buses, which they contend are carrying cargo more precious than some alternators or replacement tail lights.
“It’s a great idea,” said Alan Ross, who heads the National Coalition for School Bus Safety.
But don’t count on seeing those numbers on [...]

It’s the weekend and as regular readers know I always try to post some kin dof GPS-related “eye candy” for the weekend.  Here’s a neat site that came to me via Tim Hibbard’s blog that shows how you can set up your own GPS tracking with free software, including Google Maps.

Enjoy
http://conversationswithmyself.com/maps/tracker/gmapTracker.html

One of my two regular readers (joke, naman) may have noticed a prolonged outage yesterday … we were down at lease 9 hours.  As with many smaller web operations, this blog and many of my other business interests are hosted on a reseller account, sold to me by these guys:
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They, of [...]

Drivers Warned To Get GPS or “Else”

Transport Minister Ewart Brown has warned taxi drivers they have just over a week to get a mandatory satellite navigation system installed in their cabs.
The Deputy Premier admitted at a meeting on Tuesday night that there continued to be “service issues” with the Island’s taxis but said the high-tech [...]

A lot of bloggers, (and sadly, quite a few Sploggers), are working blogs about “GPS”.  many just re-write annoucements of new, consumer level in car navigators.  Norhing wrong with that, but there’s much more to GPS and GPS tracking than a moving map on your dashboard.
Strictly speaking these little screens from Best Buy an other [...]

Insite’s geoOps Force Tracking System (FTS) has been certified by the National Security Agency (NSA) for processing information up to and including NATO RESTRICTED.
Developed in collaboration with WinMagic, geoOps FTS will enable multi-national forces to operate together in providing Friendly Force Tracking (FFT) in the operational military environment. This FFT capability provides commanders at all [...]