or dog collar to keep track of whereabouts afield. Regardless of how you enjoy the outdoors, like most hunters and anglers these days, you’ve probably tapped into the Global Positioning System in one ...

Like many people, I’ve come to take for granted the availability of navigation systems in cars and handheld devices based on the Global Positioning System. But it was all abstract until I recently ...

Over 7 billion devices worldwide, including nearly 900 million in the United States, use GPS technology developed in the country on a daily basis. The GPS is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation ...

At the heart of GPS is the ability to measure the distance from a receiver to several satellites. There are always 4 to 8 satellites visible at any given time. Each satellite sends out a signal, which ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...

GPS interference is on the rise, so you might be wondering how it works. And can anything be done about it? And perhaps most importantly do you need to worry?

Toyota, the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ), and Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) have ...

For years, many motorists have relied on GPS (Global Positioning System) to help them navigate unknown neighbourhoods or trips to another city. So you might be surprised to learn that drivers with the ...

Perhaps you’re occasionally checking your smartphone’s built-in mapping software while driving to a remote trout stream, or using Google Earth on a home computer to scout out new hunting and fishing ...

An artist's rendering of one of the early satellites launched in the 1990's. GPS may be one of the most versatile and widely used inventions of our time. It helps us find our way home, decide where to ...

Many of us use GPS pretty much every day — getting directions with mapping apps on our phones, tracking our meal deliveries, logging our running routes — but have you ever stopped to wonder, how does ...