http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/gps-and-wireless-news.html Up-to-date news and information about GPS and Wireless Technologies. We will try to follow the (r)evolution of the different technologies and where possible show the link between them. en-us Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:43:53 +0100 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:43:53 +0100 Easy Blogs by uuba.com http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/windmill-tour.html http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/windmill-tour.html Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:43:53 +0100 Some Bla-bla-bl http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/your-own-tours.html http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/your-own-tours.html Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:17:25 +0100 You can now plan your own tours in Belgium In the last couple of years we have found out that we needed an overview of all POIs in Belgium that could interest us. Without an overview we realized that it would be impossible to plan efficiently. You drive... http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/200707.html#e80 http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/200707.html#e80 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:11:55 +0100 As an offshoot of CityShow NYC there is now a GPS-guided tour for the city of Seville (Sevilla in Spanish) in the South-West of Spain. This could not be any simpler You can rent a dedicated PDA with a SD-card GPS receiver on top, in hotels and rental... http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/gps-photography.html http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/gps-photography.html Sun, 13 May 2007 17:14:31 +0100 GPS photography is a huge help in photo classification. GPS can tell exactly where a photo has been shot. With the GPS coordinates written into the photo, it can always be found by location and been shown on the right spot on a map or satellite imagery. The... http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/gps-castle-tours.html http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/gps-castle-tours.html Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:30:23 +0100 Why GPS castle tours? It all started when in February we did a small castle tour for EveryTrail. Then we did a detailed castle tour for Doug Adomatis' site TravelByGPS.com. Ever since we are excited about geo-referencing photos. So we started to study the... http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/plb.html http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/plb.html Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:14:24 +0100 What is a PLB? PLB stands for Personal Locator Beacon. A 406 MHz PLB is a battery-powered emergency transmitter which, when activated, sends a digitally encoded signal to the Cospas-Sarsat Satellite System. They are intended for personal use on land. A... http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/sprint-nextel.html http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/sprint-nextel.html Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:20:59 +0100 Sprint was the first Already in October 2001 Sprint Nextel offered the U.S.'s first cellphone equipped for GPS-enhanced services, making it the only company to meet the FCC's mobile phone location detection deadline. The Samsung SPH-N300 was the phone of... http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/german-pow-camps.html http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/german-pow-camps.html Sun, 4 Mar 2007 23:49:05 +0100 German POW camps of WW II are hard to locate today. Their prisoners of war lived several years (up till five) in regions with German names, with towns and villages with German names. Street names were German and even the local population was German. But at... http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/everytrail.html http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/everytrail.html Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:08:12 +0100 We all know the problem. Whether hiking, biking, walking, running, driving or geocaching, real GPS and outdoors enthusiasts log their trips and make photos along the route. And then what next? How to share those magnificent adventures with others? That... http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/200702.html#e73 http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/200702.html#e73 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:48:57 +0100 The SkyBitz Global Location System (GLS) is not a classic GPS tracking system that combines a GPS receiver and a cellular modem to calculate and send the position of an asset to the client. Advantages of GLS versus GPS tracking GLS uses an L-band...