Here we go again. gosh it pains me to have to write about this yet another time. But I can’t let the issue just drop … for two reasons.
I’m a GPS professional. I believe in commercial use of the GPS and am fully in favor of using GPS to bring profit to [...]

Just a few days ago I published about my friend Rob Donat’s company, GPSInsight and the methods they used to help clients determine if serving certain customers or geographic areas was worth doing in business dollars and cents.  In other words, finding the ROI for each customer.
Today I came across a company who really gets this [...]

I’ve written several times before about GPS shoes.   This particular item here is a re-cycle if I’m not mistaken, it came from Wired Magazine’s blog in response to an initiative of the Aphrodite projects, an international organization devoted to making life safer for sex workers.  learn more about the Aphrodite project here.
Now in today’s Shrub [...]

Went to a nice press conference/product launch today and had a great time. It was hosted by a friend of mine, Patrick Co, the CEO of StarComm. It was pretty interesting to see a room full of reports taking notes on GPS tracking and the level of interest that they showed. [...]

Being in business is both simple and difficult.  The simple part is just filling in the blanks on a day-to-day basis.  Put the products in the trucks, send the trucks off on their daily missions, collect the fees, fill out the government forms … on and on it goes, but believe me this isn’t [...]

You know I like Microsoft MapPoint. It’s a tool of a thousand uses for business. One of the standard tasks any business with vehicles on the road has to face is called, in mathematics, the “Traveling Salesman Problem”. Give a driver a list of places to visit and figure out the shortest, [...]

Years ago, through Peter Dana’s tutorials and other sources I learned about alternative tracking systems to be used as a substitute or enhancement to the geographic standard of latitude/longitude reference systems.  Except for a line inscribed in the floor of the Royal Naval Observatory, Greenwich, latitude and longitude are not directly related to the earth [...]