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July 25, 2005
Microsoft launches Virtual Earth
Microsoft has launched their answer to Google Maps - Virtual Earth. To be fair though this has been in the pipeline from Microsoft for quite some time now. It has some really cool features too. I particularly like the smooth... continue reading.
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July 19, 2005
KidsOK - Cellphone-based tracker
KidsOK uses GSM triangulation as opposed to GPS to track kids on the move but it's one of a whole fleet of devices used to keep track of everything, from children, spouses and pets. Love the idea or loathe it,... continue reading.
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July 16, 2005
BBC Radio 4 - The Archive Hour - Eyes in the Sky
This week BBC Radio 4 aired Eyes in the Sky as part of The Archive Hour - an interesting account of the history of space exploration and satellites. Very interesting indeed. You can listen to this using the link above... continue reading.
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July 12, 2005
BBC Radio Wales 360 show
Last weekend I recorded a small slot on geocaching that will feature on the BBC Radio Wales "360" show. Last year I placed a cache for Radio Wales and this time we revisited the cache for some essential cache maintenance,... continue reading.
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July 8, 2005
Anquet mapping product GPS support
Anquet has added support for new GPS receivers in an update to their map viewer. The models for which support has just been added are as follows: Garmin: Forunner, Foretrex, Quest, Geko and GPS Map 60 Garmin Emap, eTrex, eTrex... continue reading.
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July 6, 2005
GPS speed control comes to UK cars
I'm not sure what to make of this news story in the Times. "The satellite-based system will monitor the speed limit and apply the brakes or cut out the accelerator if the driver tries to exceed it. A government-funded trial... continue reading.
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July 3, 2005
Drawing with Google Earth and a GPS
Google has just recently released Google Earth, a tool that allows you access to their mapping and satellite imagary database. That's pretty cool (it's amazing to have a picture of virtually the whole globe right there in front of you!).... continue reading.
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July 1, 2005
The Poor Man's GPS
Here's a great idea: "Any building, lamp post or roadsign can have its own co-ordinates printed in Human Readable form and stuck onto it. The barcoded representation of the co-ordinates would also be imprinted. This will allow a cellphone with... continue reading.