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• An Adventurers Travel Checklist
  A nice and detailed list of essential (and non-essential depending on your needs) items the traveller would find handy, including a GPS receiver, health packs, basics, and maintenance items, and more.
  
  
• Awesome Ways To Get Outdoors!
  Offers tips and fun ways for you and the whole family to go out and enjoy nature while staying physically active. Things such as bird-watching, geocaching, letterboxing, and star-gazing are the activities mentioned. Letterboxing is similar to geocaching except if you cannot afford a GPS receiver at the current time, you can play letterboxing instead without GPS.
  
  
• Buying a Satellite Navigation (Satnav) System for Your Car
  SatNav is the word to describe this piece- a once costly system is now available to many. Essentially a SatNav (short for Satellite Navigation) is a GPS date receiver combined with a computerized display monitor.
  
  
• Car Tracking Device
  
  
• Easy Navigation in the Woods or On the Water with the Garmin Etrex Gps Handheld
  This is a product endorsement as well as informative article from an outdoorsman named Niall Kennedy. He highly touts the value and functionality of the Garmin eTrex for beginners learning about how to work with Global Positioning Systems.
  
  
• Explore the Earth from Home
  Signs that GPS and Global Positioning related technologies are bound to impact our lives that we never could've imagined is evident in the latest creation of the mega corporation Google. The application is called Google Earth, and it is an apt title given that (depending on your subscription level) are able to see photographs pinpointed down to the roof of your home!
  
  
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• Ford Moves Aggressively For Mainstream Navigation System
  In an effort to attract more buyers to their Sedans, etc, Ford is pushing for navigation systems (Global Positioning Systems - GPS)within their vehicles that typically were found only in luxury models. The hope is to increase sales of Ford Models with these new GPS features, which will allow for overall price deductions given the economies of scale that this change may bring about.
  
  
• Free GPS Software
  Anne King of Maps-GPS-Info.com has graciously shared her collection of GPS software she has found over the time she has been involved with this space. Some of the software involved can help one retrieve as well as display photos from a bird's eye view, maps of topography, as well as landmarks.
  
  
• Geocaching -- The New High--Tech Sport
  Goes into an overview on the global phenomena known as Geocaching which is essentially a global treasure hunt or Easter Egg hunt if you prefer utilizing features of GPS or Global Positioning Systems and very much a persons navigation, directional, and problem solving skills.
  
  
• GPS Amplifier
  
  
• GPS Cell Phones
  Partially driven by the terrorist attacks on September 11, as well as problems with cellular phone connection to 911 calls, the Federal Communications Commission has required that all cell phone carriers have to have the ability to trace and pinpoint the location of the origination of a phone call within an boundary of error of 100 meters.
  
  
• GPS Freight Tracking System
  
  
• GPS Golf Balls Are Almost Here
  GPS is used to measure the trajectory and where it lands. Same with football, referees will know exactly how much yardage is gained, whether the football is in bounds or not and if it crosses the goal line.
  
  
• GPS Live Tracking
  
  
• GPS Navigation Systems and Data Problems
  This article goes into some of the trouble that is starting to crop up as it pertains to GPS navigation systems for our cars and motorcycles. We have a serious problem brewing with GPS navigation systems for automobiles and even motorcycles.
  
  
• GPS Pet Tracking
  If your pet is constantly on the run and getting lost and found at your neighbors, consider a GPS device to track your pets movements.
  
  
• GPS Tracking Services For People
  
  
• How Does GPS Work
  Like many advanced technologies, GPS was initially developed to serve the military and make it easier for them to get where they want to go.
  
  
• Lost and Found in the Great Outdoors
  If you've ever seen the move "The Edge" with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin, the survival in the woods tips that follow should resonate very familiarly with you. Sure they didn't have things like GPS devices and were kind of thrown into a very difficult situation, but what follows is still applicable in the worst case scenario.
  
  
• Maps of Time and Tide.
  Offers insight into the dying art of cartography, but not the dying need for maps and geo-spatial data for construction related activities, land/water surveying, and more. GPS is a new spin on an old art that was initially used with paper, and stone tablets, as well as human intuition.
  
  
• The Development of RespiteMatch
  The centerpiece of this article is not on the technical aspects of GPS, but is nevertheless a heart-warming and creative story that involves GPS in an auxiliary matter.
  
  
• Towing on the Net
  This article is written by a managing partner of a software firm specializing in, among other things, GPS or Global Position System integration with the internet and in towing situations for trucks and fleet management.
  
  
• Using Delivery, Routing and Scheduling Software with GPS, Cad, GIS Data From Aviation
  This article is filled with geek-speak and you can tell the author is enjoying it very much like a hobbyist talks about his passions all day long. For the adventurous of spirit and in mind, I invite you to check it out.
  
  
• What to Know When Buying a GPS
  GPS has not only improved significantly in terms of technological features, but is also becoming more and more within reach financially to many people. GPS has lots of applications such as for camping, geocaching, or simply for driving directions. For those who will be using the GPS while walking, it's important to find a GPS that is light, small enough to carry conveniently, and resistant to the elements among other features.
  
  
• Where on Earth is your Web Site?
  Behold, the future of website marketing- GIS and GPS will play an integral role in the design and construction of websites. Individuals with internet-ready and GPS-ready phones will be on the rise, and with that, a demand for information will rise proportionally