Lesson of the day: Some opportunities may be better left un-seized. A Riverhead man with a felony record learned it the hard way when he jumped in an idling Suffolk County-owned van and took off, only to be arrested minutes later. Turns out the vehicle was equipped with a GPS [...]

Here’s a few links, tools, comments and tidbits I found interesting this past week … I see a lot happening in the GPS train world this coming year … if you aren’t onboard already, get on the train.
Tim Flight at GPSReview,net has an interesting and very useful post about reading the satellite information screens on [...]

Yesterday I posted about some pioneering programs, long overdue, that airlines, the FAA and other agencies are using to take huge amounts of data about non-accident airline flights an "data mine" to find close calls, inherently dangerous practices, and just plain craziness that can be corrected in advance, before the metal meets the mountain.
What about [...]

Here’s an interesting article that has kept me busy for a couple days. It’s really a breath of fresh air to me and I’m hoping I can write a lot more about it in the future. It’s on the Washington Post web site, which does require free registration … I advise you take the time [...]

I’m not absolutely sure this one is for real but there have been too many recent similar reports for them all to be a hoax:
GPS steers driver into path of train

Silicon Valley geek led astray

Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 04 Jan 2008
A computer technician from Sunnyvale is facing a bill of hundreds of thousands of dollars after [...]

It’s about time I started making the rounds of our sponsors here at GPS ROU Tracking.  It’s always welcome to have sponsors to help pay the freight, but I’m not going to kid anybody … GPS ROI Tracking is strictly a one man, small time operations, mainly an outlet for my curmudgeonly, and I would [...]