The chief inventor and designer of GPS technology has passed away in his New Hampshire home.

The passing of Roger Easton, one of the primary developers of GPS technology, has affected people all over the world. Easton and his team paved to the way toward advanced navigation for civilians and military, highly advanced GPS tracking, and even improving the safety of children and adults with disabilities, all thanks to global positioning systems (GPS).

Easton passed in his home in Hanover, New Hampshire on May 8th. The announcement was released by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington where Easton was an employee for 37 years and worked on much of the GPS advancements from. Read the rest of this entry »

Golfers are being tracked with GPS units to determine ways for improving their game.

Fleet vehicles, endangered animals, and personal belongings have all been tracked with GPS tracking technology, and now golfers are going to have their movements tracked. As part of a three-month project by the U.S. Golf Association, golfers are going to be carrying around a small GPS tracker to help improve their game.

The trackers will be equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) technology that tracks their playing habits and movements throughout their game. The end goal is to improve their game by encouraging them to play faster and get from hole to hole in a more expedient fashion.

The U.S. Golf Association (USGA) is concerned with how long it takes some golfers to get through a traditional game. They are hoping to speed up the playing experience. As of now, the average is 22 minutes for each round and a minimum four-hour game. Read the rest of this entry »

GPS tracking for moving companies is highly beneficial for both large and small moving companies alike. Not only does it provide important routing information to help you conserve fuel, save time, and save money, but it also helps you give your customers, who are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their possessions, shockingly accurate estimates of when they should anticipate them. The benefits below are other reasons you might want to consider GPS tracking for your moving company.

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In case you missed it, astorm this winter crippled traffic in Atlanta leaving some people trapped in their vehicles for more than 20 hours. It was a traffic nightmare unheard of before. If your company had trucks caught up in the nightmare, you don’t need anyone to tell you how stressful it was for the people waiting on deliveries.

While you cannot avoid traffic nightmares you’re in the middle of with GPS tracking technology, you can avoid having your trucks become unwitting victims by getting them off the road ahead of the traffic jams and finding alternate routes that avoid the traffic problems. Read the rest of this entry »

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GPS tracking technology is being used to help cut back on the number of Arizona wildfires and put them out quickly once they begin.

The state of Arizona, like California, has a reputation of having to dealing with wildfires when the temperatures rise. The hot, dry, desert climate makes it susceptible to wildfires breaking out with almost no warning.

In the past, the best way to curb wildfires was to thin out local forests and cut down trees in areas that are prone to fires. However, this process has proved to be time consuming and expensive, which has caused efforts to move slowly and not be as beneficial as wildlife prevention experts in the area would have liked. Read the rest of this entry »

A puma mountain lion being tracked with a GPS tracking device shows that he is on the move and getting a little too close.

The puma mountain lion’s name for now is forty-six M (46M). He is a young puma that is currently being tracked by scientists at UC Santa Cruz as part of the Santa Cruz Puma Project. There is a GPS tracking collar around his neck that lets researchers know exactly where he is at all times, where he is headed, and every time he stops or is on the move.

Global positioning systems (GPS) let scientists get this updated information in real-time. It uses radio and satellite signals to determine the puma’s location on a map by using points. Associate professor at UCSC, Chris Wilmers, has been keeping an eye on him and watching as he makes his way to the downtown area of Mountain View.

Several weeks ago, the puma left his mom’s territory in the Santa Cruz mountains, in what is known as dispersal. Within the garage of an apartment building in Mountain View, Wilmers takes a look at the downloaded data from the GPS tracker. Read the rest of this entry »