Stand-alone GPS systems face challenge
BY ERIC BENDEROFF
Chicago Tribune
As I watched an ad for GPS gadget maker Garmin Ltd. during the recent Super Bowl, I had a fleeting thought the $2 million spent would be a waste, just like all that money those long-gone dot-coms once spent on the big game.
Last week, as I read about [...]

Underground / indoor GPS repeater maintains your position
Posted Feb 21st 2007 10:32AM by Darren Murph
Filed under: GPS
Sure, there’s a number of uber-sensitive GPS receivers out there that claim to maintain your position whilst under a bridge, in a tunnel, or cramped up in some thick-walled office building, but a recent patent application is looking to [...]

“Neogeography”
Joab Jacksonfor National Geographic News
April 25, 2006
Need to know where to find a mountaintop castle in Japan? How about the best fried cheese sticks along U.S. Route 66?
Now, thanks to a unique mashup of cartography and blogs, you can find what you need to know just by looking at a map…..  [...]

…..Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) to provide real-time traffic flow data for nearly 250 miles of US 41 and I-43. These main routes carry tens of thousands of cars and trucks each day between Milwaukee, Green Bay and several cities in between. WisDOT will use the information to provide real-time travel information — traffic flow, [...]

recently one of my blogging friends, Tim Hibbard pointed out a new face in this segment of the blogging world and a new business with some interesting plans on the horizon.  A forward-thinker name of Ken Hoetmer has started his own business called Spatial North Technologies Inc.
Ken’s “thing” is making maps (and the geographic sciences [...]

Ambulance Service Touts Fewer Errors, Faster Response Thanks To GPS
February 19, 2007Georgia - Public safety agencies have tinkered with the use of Global Positioning Systems in small areas recently, but a local ambulance service is pioneering its use over a broad part of Middle Georgia, including rural areas.Mid-Georgia Ambulance owner Ben Hinson said placing GPS [...]

Saw this wonderful item in the Chicago Sun-Times today. Really makes me wonder what the US GPS industry is thinking. But actually, it points up to me that it is not slow uptake of GPS technology as much as it is a nation with a near ignorance of maps … how to use [...]