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Video: Mapping Inside Buildings By Tracking Earth’s Magnetic Field
The kind of accurate geolocation offered by Global Positioning Systems has typically been difficult to apply indoors because metallic structures...
Next-Gen GPS Satellite, Accurate to Within Three Feet and Indoors, is Ready for Testing
Were America’s NavSat handlers perhaps feeling slighted when it was revealed that the new Apple iPhone 4S would augment its...
Ground-Based Version of Satellite GPS Could Make Positioning Technology Accurate to Inches Anywhere
GPS is currently accurate to something like 9 feet. An Australian company says its new geolocation technology could shave that...
Radar Shoes Could Help Locate Users Where Satellite Signals Won’t Go
The rise of readily available GPS-enabled devices was supposed to make losing one’s way a relic of a bygone era....
Polish Soldiers in Afghanistan Given Faulty GPS Units That Say They’re Still In Poland, Or Maybe Africa
In Afghanistan, perhaps more so than in a small Polish town, it’s important to know exactly where you’re going. So...
Mobile Indoor Positioning is Coming, But Incompatible Standards Stand in the Way
Our GPS-wielding smartphones have made it somewhat difficult to get lost, say, on the way to the museum. But if...