Navteq, the leading international provider of digital maps declared a relationship with Microsoft in which the two companies will be getting together on 3D mapping data and visuals, bing maps.  Navteq exclaims that the agreement will grant the company to innovate the capabilities of collecting and also to accelerate the development and storage of 3D [...]

GPS technology has been into existence for quiet longer time stepping into almost all the real time application but it hasn’t been employed in commercial airlines as a guide till date. Southwest airlines has recently established the concept by commencing a new satellite assistance runway approach. Southwest is the major airline and the most successful [...]

Scientists have fixed petite Global Positioning System(GPS) to pigeons to study the way how flock of birds change their directions and stay together. They hope the study will give hints to the collective behavior of human. Britain and Hungary researchers used GPS backpacks to put down the flights paths of individual pigeons and later examine [...]

Light houses has been serving aweary fisherman for years to find their way to home after a long day sea. But the lighthouses found near important ports may be soon turned off. Experts believe that the development of hi technology is the route cause of the problem. Most watercraft and even smaller ones now a [...]

Most of us has seen the term ‘WAAS’ on the packing of satellite navigation and wondered what this new technology is all about. The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is a system of satellites that corrects the GPS signal, giving you better positioning accuracy. The position accuracy of WAAS when compared to other devices is [...]