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GPS Navigation vs Tracking

Difference Between GPS Tracking & GPS Navigation

July 19, 2018 12:58 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

One of the most common assumptions people make when they hear the term “GPS” is that GPS tracking and GPS navigation are the same things. While both tools use the Global Positioning Satellites, the two activities are different as are the devices and services. It doesn’t help that when you watch a TV show or go to the movies, the characters often talk about tracking people using their phone. So, what exactly is the difference between GPS tracking and GPS navigation? Let’s look at each of them individually. GPS tracking, which is utilizing satellite information to record one’s course of... View Article


How to Navigate Without GPS Using a Map and Compass

July 12, 2018 9:03 am Published by Leave your thoughts

Over the last decade or two, consumer use of GPS technology for navigation and tracking has exploded. We’re so reliant on GPS and map apps that use GPS to help us find our way around, most of us find it difficult to imagine a time when people actually were pretty good at finding our way from point A to point C and points in between for thousands of years with little to no technology or gear. These days most of us don’t know how to navigate without GPS. You might not know what to do if you can’t access your GPS... View Article


How Scientists Use GPS to Predict Tsunamis

July 5, 2018 8:22 am Published by Leave your thoughts

In times of disaster, the best course of action may be the only logical one: get out of the way. When such is the case, timing is everything. If there is one thing that GPS is adept at, it’s improving our timing. It’s no surprise, then, that the same technology used to keep track of our company’s fleet as well as get us to the movies before the previews start is also being put to work in saving the lives of those in the danger zone. When Mother Nature gets restless, human lives are put at risk. Emergency broadcast systems... View Article


How GPS Technology Could Make Students Safer

June 28, 2018 7:49 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

With so many news stories about children and teens in the news lately, especially when it comes to their wellbeing and safety, we decided to shift gears and look at some of the ways GPS tracking technologies are being employed by schools to help keep children safer, including as a possible solution for the prevention of school shootings. We found so many GPS  and other technological solutions that schools and parents are implementing to improve the safety of students, it would take a book to tell you about them all. Below you’ll find just a few of the ways that GPS... View Article


GPS Tracking at FIFA’s 2018 Worldcup in Russia

June 21, 2018 4:51 pm Published by Leave your thoughts

  Here at GPS Technologies, we like to write about our own GPS tracking solutions as well as on the world of GPS technology, including in the world of professional sports. We recently covered the use of Electronic Performance Tracking Systems (EPTS) and the NFL.   With the 2018 World Cup going on right now, we thought we’d turn our attention to a different type of football – soccer. The embrace of GPS and other tracking technologies by professional soccer occurred later than most professional sports, but since FIFA (International Federation of Football Association) approved Goal Line Technology (GLT)  in... View Article


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