Philips Exits PND Market Before Entry Published January 1, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion Philips Electronics abruptly pulled the plug on plans to enter the personal navigation device (PND) market. Read more » OEM
GPS Adventure Game Out the Window Published January 1, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion Looking out the window during a long car trip becomes an interactive adventure with a new GPS-based game developed by The Interactive Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Read more » GPS game product showcase recreation
GNSS Business Outlook: Critical GNSS: Safety, Financial, and Legal Published January 1, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion The use of satellite navigation in civil aviation and other safety-critical navigation applications drove the development of satellite-based augmentation systems and differential networks to track and augment GPS, providing the prerequisite levels of accuracy, integrity, coverage, and availability. Read more » high-integrity GPS integrity
GNSS The System — January 2007 Published January 1, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion Galileo Guess Who; Old Block IIA Sat Reactivated for Tests; GPS III Faucet Opened Read more » GPS III The System
Uncategorized The Business — January 2007 Published January 1, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion Pay As You Drive Insurance Gets Brit Road Test; Philips Exits PND Market before Entry; Driving for Dollars: Urban Challenge Purse Put at $3.5 million Read more » The Business
Uncategorized Seen + Heard: GPS Adventure Game Out the Window Published January 1, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion Looking out the window during a long car trip becomes an interactive adventure with a new GPS-based game developed by The Interactive Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. The Backseat Playground uses GPS to turn passing sights such as forests, buildings, and rivers into locations for in-game characters and events, reports New Scientist magazine. Backseat Playground consists of a GPS receiver, a handheld computer, and headphones connected to a laptop in the trunk of the car. Read more » geotagging GPS game Seen & Heard snow leopards
Update: GNSS Accuracy: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics Published January 1, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion This update to a seminal article first published here in 1998 explains how statistical methods can create many different position accuracy measures. As the driving forces of positioning and navigation change from survey and precision guidance to location-based services, E911, and so on, some accuracy measures have fallen out of common usage, while others have blossomed. The analysis changes further when the constellation expands to ombinations of GPS, SBAS, Galileo, and GLONASS. Software scripts, provided online, help bridge the gap between theory and reality. Read more » Frank van Diggelen OEM statistics
Opinions Out in Front: Best Intentions Published January 1, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion The magazine has not carried much GLONASS news in recent months, yet we continue to cover Galileo and we devoted several pages to Beidou in December. In all three cases, we find an absence of real news. Read more » Out in Front
Opinions Letter to the Editor: Who Invented GPS? Published January 1, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion In your August 2006 issue, you raised the question: Who was first with GPS? Read more » GPS history letters
Defense Driving for Dollars: Urban Challenge Purse Put at $3.5 Million Published January 1, 2007 By GPS World Staff Join the Discussion The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will award $2 million, $1 million, and $500,000 awards to the top three robotic finishers who complete its new Urban Challenge course in November 2007. Read more » DARPA
