Mobile TomTom-Tele Atlas Merger Falls Under Scrutiny Published November 28, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion The European Commission (EC) is taking a closer look at TomTom's planned acquisition of TeleAtlas; it looks as if it might have a tough European road to hoe. Read more » consumer OEM European Commission GNSS industry maps merger mergers and acquisitions PND Tele Atlas TomTom
Mobile Navteq Schedules Stockholder Vote on Nokia Merger Published November 27, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion Navteq Corp. said Monday that it has scheduled a special meeting of stockholders next month to consider approval of the previously announced merger agreement between the company and Nokia. Read more » consumer OEM GNSS industry maps merger mergers and acquisitions Navteq Nokia PND Tele Atlas
Uncategorized Geospatial Systems, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Announce TAMS System Published November 8, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion Geospatial Systems, Inc. (GSI) has announced the development of a new Tactical Airborne Mapping and Surveillance (TAMS) system designed to produce National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF)-compliant imagery supporting forward area mapping requirements. Read more »
Opinions Survey Survey Perspectives – October 2007 Published October 25, 2007 By Eric Gakstatter Join the Discussion ION GNSS 2007 Report I hope some of you had a chance to read my ION GNSS conference blog, as well as those of my fellow editors who attended the conference. I think Editor-in-Chief Alan Cameron´s brainstorm about this was very good, and I expect we will repeat next year. If you missed it, you can still view it on the GPS World Web site. It´s worth a few minutes of reading to get the flavor of what the hot issues were. Read more » Survey Scene
GNSS Opinions Transportation Expert Advice: NDGPS Cut-Off Premature Published October 1, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion The possibility, currently under consideration, of actually dropping an important accuracy augmentation element of GPS - the Nationwide Differential GPS (NDGPS) - before alternatives are available would certainly undermine worldwide confidence in the U.S. commitment to continuing to provide service equal to or better than what is already there. Read more » Expert Advice nationwide differential GPS NDGPS
Survey WhiteStar Introduces SpotOn at GITA Oil & Gas Show Published September 20, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion WhiteStar Corp. has introduced SpotOn, a Web-delivered service which enables users to reach out over the Internet to convert a well's public land survey legal description into a precise geographic coordinate. Read more » construction maps oil and gas pipeline surveying
Defense GNSS White House Agrees to Remove Selective Availability Published September 19, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion In a statement late Tuesday, the White House said that President Bush has agreed with the U.S. Department of Defense recommendation to permanently do away with Selective Availability, the intentional degradation of the civil GPS signal. Read more » Selective Availability
Defense Galileo GNSS The System — September 2007 Published September 1, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion AEP on the Ground; Galileo Tests, Rescue Role; DOT Weighs NDGPS Future, Asks Public Input; The Robots of DARPA Read more » DARPA GIOVE-A MEOSAR OCX The System
Opinions Survey Survey Perspectives – September 2007 Published August 28, 2007 By Eric Gakstatter Join the Discussion I thought this would be a timely subject, since I´m heading off for two days of CGSIC/NAVCEN presentations before the ION GNSS 2007 conference starts on September 25. I´ll also be staying for the conference, and reporting back to you on what I hear there. Read more » Survey Scene
Opinions Survey Survey Perspectives – August 2007 Published August 28, 2007 By Eric Gakstatter Join the Discussion I, along with John Flick, co-authored a fairly in-depth piece on GNSS in the April 2006 issue of Geospatial Solutions. The basics of that article are still applicable, but here´s an update on GNSS events that have transpired since then ? with a bit of speculation and guesstimation thrown in. Read more » Survey Scene