GIS Technology

"We need to know something about everything all the time,"

The theory behind global positioning system devices is compelling: Since the devices can tell their position in longitude and latitude to within 20 feet, users can never be lost. In reality, though, GPS users are finding themselves … lost.

"Consumer awareness [of GPS] has really only been in the last two to three years," said Glen Gibbons, founder and editor of GPS World magazine. "We live with cars and cell phones. If you put GPS in them, people become familiar with it."

China is to contribute to a new global satellite navigation system being developed by European nations. NewScientist.com news service The Galileo satellite system will offer a more accurate civilian alternative to the Global Positioning System…

HERE I AM– at least to within two meters or so, the current civilian resolution of GPS. By Steven Ashley – Scientific American Some 20 million people now regularly use Global Positioning System (GPS) technology,…

AB 1509 by Assembly Member John Benoit requires the Office of Emergency Services to conduct a demonstration project on the use of satellite devices that use GIS and GPS technologies in the management and deployment of mobile emergency response equipment and personnel.

"The technology is hugely new and innovative," he said. "Retinal scanning security has been used, but this simply moves it to the bovine industry."

"Erosion is a huge, complex problem," he said. "You don’t want to waste any time in fighting it."

Of all the cities shaken up by the economic downturn following the dot-com bust, few have felt the impact like San Francisco. At the height of its technology-driven 90s economy, commercial vacancies were at a…

Visual Learning Systems Inc. (VLS) http://www.featureanalyst.com is pleased to announce that its flagship software product Feature Analyst is now listed on the U.S. Government’s General Services Administration (GSA) schedule. Feature Analyst quickly and accurately converts…