If It Is On A Map, You Can Find It

When you have GPS in your mobile phone or PDA, you can find software that will track and record your movement with Google Earth or Google Maps. Some software will also offer you visual and a voice guide to wherever you want to go and will offer you the ability to search for and navigate to businesses that are found in the yellow pages.

You can find mapping software for your mobile phone, care, PDA, boat and mounted GPS unit that will allow you to pull maps from any location on earth, including street maps, static maps and tile maps. Some professional mapping software also allows you to record information about data that you are collecting which makes it useful for surveyors, explorers and scientists.

Other mapping software allows you to survey an area of land, calculate and draw distances and to record your surveying work. There are also mapping programs, which will tell you where the restaurants, shopping centers, ATMs and accommodations are located.

There are plenty of GPS software types are convenient to use when you are travelling in your car or boat. You can find software that will give you directions that are spoken to you as you drive. Some of this software will let you replay your route, reroute your travels and track your travels. What is great about the software is that it allows you to track and will help in the recovery of your stolen vehicle.

Improve Your Golf Game With GPS

You can find GPS software for playing golf. The golf GPS software comes with maps of over 20,000 golf courses from around the world. Your golf GPS software will also allow you to calculate your shots, to survey your local golf course, and to add the golf course to the collections of golf courses that are available on GPS golf course maps.

There are numerous types of GPS software that will allow you to get to your destination without you having to stop and look at a map and this basic tool is a great improvement over using a paper map.

The case for GPS, FM and Bluetooth integration (telecomasia.net)

With close to 1.18 billion mobile handsets sold in 2007 and an expected 1.8 billion in 2012, the attach rate metrics for GPS technology in cell phones are becoming increasingly important for both industries.

Not all cell phones have GPS (Ravalli Republic)

If you think calling 911 from your cell phone will automatically pinpoint your location for emergency dispatchers, think again. “A lot of people make that assumption, but they’re wrong,” Joanna Hamilton, Ravalli County’s 911 director, said Monday. “It’s a false sense of security.”

Gadget makers scale back for annual Las Vegas show (Orlando Sentinel)

This week more than 2,700 companies will descend on Las Vegas to show off the latest computers, cell phones, GPS systems, TV sets and other gadgets at the largest consumer-technology exhibition in the world.

GPS devices, mileage tax could be in future for U.S. drivers (Kane County Chronicle)

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon is among a growing number of states exploring ways to tax drivers based on the number of miles they drive instead of how much gas they use, even going so far as to install GPS monitoring devices in 300 vehicles.

Giving Intel and AMD a run for their money (CNN Money)

You've likely never heard of ARM, a small U.K. company that doesn't advertise or put its name on any products. But chances are that as you read this, you're within sight of an "electronic brain" that ARM designed -- its handiwork lives in items as diverse as GPS navigators, camcorders and the Nintendo DS.