How Does Gps Change Us?

That's the name of a discussion over Slashdot: How Does GPS Change Us?

Their summary: ""People have talked for a while about the effects of GPS on our driving ability and our sense of direction; one researcher at McGill has even been developing an exercise regimen to compensate for our supposedly atrophying navigational ability. But is GPS reshaping our lives in a more fundamental sense? The author of this new essay draws on science, sociology, and literature to argue that GPS is transforming how we think about travel and exploration. How can we discover 'the new' in an age when everything around us is mapped?" My own experience is that GPS has made me much more aware of location, by showing me the bird's-eye view, and letting me instantly compare alternate routes."

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How Does GPS Change Us?

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Apple Makes Another Play For The Enterprise: Old Navy Testing iPod-Based Point-Of-Sale System (AAPL, GPS)

Apple is making a huge play at the enterprise market via iOS: Not just the typical corporate market you think of, like getting big companies to buy Macs instead of Dells, but actually getting companies to use iOS devices as part of their business infrastructure.

The latest example: Old Navy, the clothing retailer, is testing out iPod-based point-of-sale systems in its stores, 9to5Mac reports. These are the same little iPod touch-based credit card swiping systems that you see used in Apple's own retail stores.

Who knows if this will become widespread, but it's a huge potential new market for Apple.

And not just Apple doing it directly, but also via iOS software partners, such as the company we found offering an iPad- and SMS-based table-waiting service at a San Francisco restaurant.

Related: Here's How Apple Is Invading The Enterprise

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Apple Makes Another Play For The Enterprise: Old Navy Testing iPod-Based Point-Of-Sale System (AAPL, GPS)

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Anyone know anything about tracking someone's location via GPS on a cell phone?

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Anyone know anything about tracking someone's location via GPS on a cell phone?

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The Future of Standalone GPS Devices in Cars

This New York Times article examines whether GPS receivers for cars will get pinched between in-dash navigation systems on the one hand and smartphones with navigation apps on the other. Via @gpstracklog. Previously: TomTom Not Worried by GPS-Equipped Smartphones....

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Track iPhone Calls, Contacts, GPS Location, Email, SMS, Photos, Websites with Mobile Spy

Mobile Spy is the world's first commercial spying service for iPhone which allows you to track calls, messages, GPS location, emails, photos and websites opened by any iPhone with
Mobile Spy app installed on it. Once
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Microsoft Aims To Improve Maps With GPS Data

From an engadget story : "Microsoft's already added a Taxi Fare Calculator to Bing Maps to help keep your cabbie in check, and it's now actually enlisted the help of some 33,000 Beijing cab drivers in an effort to further improve driving directions. More specifically, it's relying on GPS data collected from the cab drivers' cars over a period of three months, which has since been funneled into a system called T-Drive created by a team at Microsoft Research Asia."
*update : More details have been posted on wired courtesy of the GIS Lounge

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GPS Tracklog Reviews DeLorme GPS/Communicator Combo

GPS Tracklog has a two-part review of the DeLorme Earthmate PN-60w GPS receiver and SPOT satellite communicator combo: the SPOT review went up last month; the PN-60w review showed up this morning. The SPOT communicator allows you to send text messages or an SOS from remote areas; Rich calls this “almost a must have for those of us venturing far off the beaten track.” As for the PN-60w, it’s comparable in performance to recent Garmin units (Oregon 450, GPSMAP 62 series) but has a smaller screen; he’s also reluctant to recommend it to first-time GPS buyers.

Geotag is an open source program that allows you match date/time information from photos with location information from a GPS unit or from a map

Geotag is an open source program that allows you match date/time information from photos with location information from a GPS unit or from a map

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Geo Gadgets – Garmin Approach Golf Watch + GPS

A cool device for the Geo golfing geek! Enter the Approach S1, the first GPS wristwatch designed specifically for golf. The Approach S1 from gaarmin displays precise yardages to the front, back and middle of greens and comes preloaded with 14,000-plus [...]

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GPS Review Has a Love-Hate Relationship with Geocaching

GPS Review’s love-hate relationship with geocaches: “[L]ately I’ve become a bit turned off by caches placed in places where they simply shouldn’t be. While each area is different, I’d say more than half of the geocaches I’ve visited in recent years are located in places where I just don’t think a geocache belongs.” Such as caches that are too far off the marked trail or in improper terrain, that trigger bomb scares, or that are placed too closely near other caches.

GPS Review Has a Love-Hate Relationship with Geocaching first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on October 20, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

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Entitlement and GPS Lock

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comes up with an interesting example of humanity’s sense of entitlement: how long it takes a GPS receiver to get a satellite lock. Via @wilw.

Entitlement and GPS Lock first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on October 20, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

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Entitlement and GPS Lock

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comes up with an interesting example of humanity’s sense of entitlement: how long it takes a GPS receiver to get a satellite lock. Via @wilw.