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  • Our Man in the Baltic: Report from the European Navigation Conference

    Apr 25, 2012 12 Comments

    GDANSK, POLAND — Poland has emerged as a regional leader for Eastern Europe. Among all European countries, it ranks fourth in population and ninth in the size of its national economy. This year, the European Navigation Conference (ENC), which rotates each year to a different host country, has conv...

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  • TomTom Launches New Global Geocoding Web Service

    Apr 25, 2012 2 Comments

    At the Geospatial World Forum, TomTom announced the launch of its high volume batch geocoding web service. The TomTom Global Geocoder enables businesses to process large amounts of data with a single click of a button and return results quickly. According to the announcement, geocoding is the proces...

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  • Expert Advice: Soldiers and Civilian GPS: Dangerous (and Deadly?) Expediency

    Apr 01, 2012 No Comments

      Jules McNeff By Jules McNeff An old adage says, “Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.” That is particularly relevant in today’s world of GPS and the positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) dependencies it has created. In business, it’s all about location, and in military ...

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  • How GLONASS, Galileo, and Compass Will Affect High-Precision Users

    Mar 06, 2012 No Comments

    Join GPS World’s Survey and GIS Editor Eric Gakstatter March 15 for the webinar, “Everything Else but GPS: How GLONASS, Galileo, and Compass Will Affect High-Precision Users.” The webinar will be held at 10 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. ET/6 pm. GMT); registration is free. “In a rapid...

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  • LightSquared: CEO, Executive VP Over and Out

    Mar 05, 2012 No Comments

    The LightSquared machine continues to implode as CEO Sanjiv Ahuja and Executive Vice President Martin Harriman resigned last week in the wake of the NTIA recommendations against LightSquared rolling out their system. This week, Bloomberg reported that Sprint will end its infrastructure sharing deal ...

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  • Never Again? Oh, Again and Again.

    Feb 22, 2012 No Comments

    When the last English inhabitant of Virginia’s Lost Colony succumbed to hunger or swamp fever or local assimilation in 1588, Chesapeake chief Powhatan may have turned to his council and said, “Well, that’s the last of that. No more will we be troubled by outsiders infringing on our territory. ...

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  • Let’s Hear It for the Supremes!

    Jan 24, 2012 No Comments

    GPS trackers are a form of search, and police must obtain a search warrant to use them, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled. This comes as a setback to government and police agencies who increasingly rely on GPS surveillance. Justice Scalia said the government’s installation of a GPS device t...

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  • Supreme Court Rules Warrant Needed for GPS Tracking

    Jan 23, 2012 No Comments

    GPS trackers are a form of search, and to use them police must have a search warrant, according to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling today. The high court issued a unanimous ruling that a search warrant is required before police slap a GPS tracker on a criminal suspect’s vehicle to monitor the suspe...

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