About us

The business and technology of global positioning, navigation and timing (PNT)

For more than 30 years, GPS World has been the top publication for the GNSS industry. We help advance the development and deployment of GPS/GNSS and other positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) solutions. With a focus on technical, practical, ever-changing applications, we captivate and educate our readers, and deliver unmatched returns for our growing family of marketing partners.

GPS World is published in print and digital formats every month. For breaking news in the GNSS/PNT industry, turn to our website at gpsworld.com. We also offer several market sector newsletters, as well as the weekly Navigate! newsletter.

Our history

GPS World, the magazine, has covered the global positioning industry since 1989. Our website, gpsworld.com, began providing that same coverage in 1998, with news as it happens.

GPS World’s Navigate! Weekly e-newsletter first appeared in 2007, providing news conveniently delivered to your inbox.

The Digital Edition, electronically reproducing the full print issue, launched in mid-2005. Complete, convenient (browser-based, with no fat files or mandatory downloads), interactive (live, zoomable, thumbable, with immediate clickthrough to advertisers’ and other referenced sites), and portable — download it to your computer for offline reading and archiving. We introduced Apple and Android apps in 2012 and 2013, respectively.

GPS World’s market-segmented microsites are the freshest out-of-the-box tools for professionals in every tech field that uses or seeks to use global positioning, navigation, and timing. Use the tabs at the top of this page to access these highly targeted, highly accurate source materials.

We’re more than a magazine. We are an information dissemination system. And we’re not done yet.

For continuous innovation in delivery of the freshest, most comprehensive GPS/GNSS-related news to high-level corporate managers, project and engineering managers, product designers, researchers and system developers — all of whom rely on GPS World when making purchase decisions in a $5.8 billion market — just watch this space.


A note about our name

GPS World has never limited itself to coverage of the U.S. Global Positioning System. We have also chronicled the development of GLONASS, BeiDou and Galileo, as well as WAAS, EGNOS, QZSS, GAGAN and private correction services.

We also cover positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technology and developments, which work with GNSS to achieve greater accuracy, availability, integrity and robustness. These include inertial sensors, eLoran, lidar, electronic compasses, cellular signal positioning, video signal positioning, odometers, wheel-speed sensors, ultra wideband, RFID, Bluetooth and more.

Uses of GPS have spread across the landscape, the seas, into air space, into outer space, driven by designers and engineers crafting new solutions for challenging problems. Wherever the industry is heading, we will be there to cover it.

GPS World readers come from all high-tech sectors, as other industries realize they can benefit from high-accuracy position and timing. Thanks to our Digital Edition, all qualified readers can now get GPS World.


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