Charleston County, South Carolina, Deploys GIS for Improved Emergency Medical Services Response
Read the whole article if you care about people living and dying … especially if it were your son or daughter lying in the road waiting for an ambulance. The most important parafraph is here:
“I’ve been really excited about just how much improvement [...]

Two news items from the same city today that pretty much tell the story of the right way and the wrong way to use GPS tracking technology to get an ROI in you business or government agency.  Here’s two examples of
 How To:
NYC school buses on track to get GPS technology
NEW YORK (AP) _ The city [...]

I was just going through my notes and found I had made an entry about this product and company back in June … somehow it never seemed to get written up.  Better late than never, since it complements my last story’s subject very well, business keeping track of their assets.
The GPS and RFID (Radio [...]

INDIANAPOLIS — After five burglaries at his store this summer, Chris Rowland decided to plant Global Positioning System devices in some of his merchandise.
The decision paid off with burglary No. 6.
Someone broke into the Woodcraft store in the Castleton area on Friday morning and stole woodworking tools. Rowland had placed [...]

New Web Site Maps Nationwide High School Graduation Data
Redlands, California—A new online mapping engine puts graduation data in front of educators, administrators, policy makers, and parents across the country. Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) Research Center has issued a groundbreaking report called Diplomas Count and worked with ESRI, the world’s largest geographic information system (GIS) [...]

If you run trucks that fall under the purview of the FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) and especially if you use GPS tracking to protect your drivers and your business (if you don’t, write me and tell me why, would you please, I’d like to know) this will interest you a lot:
Feds ask [...]

This just in courtesy of Wired.com.
Full text of Wired Selective Availability Ending Article here:
The White House said today (19 sep 2007) that it is permanently ending a program that had intentionally built error-producing mechanisms into the nation’s fleet of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.
The so-called Selective Availability (SA) degradation capacity has been part of the [...]