Gladys Mae West, the quiet mathematician behind the Global Positioning System that now guides everything from ride-hailing ...

No audio available for this content. Time. Ask anyone what time means to them, and they will give you a different answer. Benjamin Franklin famously stated that “time is money.” Time for the surveyor ...

From the first time I used a Hertz GPS navigation system in lieu of a paper map on the front passenger’s seat, I have found the technology to be an almost indispensable tool. Its adoption over the ...

A GEB reader recently asked us how to use UTM coordinates in Google Earth and we thought it might be a good idea to explore it a bit. If you go to Tools->Options->3D View and look in the ‘Show ...

Two providers of RFID-based real-time location systems for asset tracking have announced the addition of GPS technology to their offerings. Santa Clara, Calif.-based WhereNet has introduced GPS ...