Microsoft will attend the FMCA's 83rd International Convention, which will be held at Expo New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M., from March 22 to 25, 2010, to promote its mapping and GPS software Streets & Trips 2010. Larry & Gladwin will be the "If you are from the area, we invite you to come and meet with us and bring your questions and comments. We love to meet everyone who uses Streets &...

http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/gps-modernization/news/ground-control-software-update-aep-550d-set-friday-9641?print=1 GPS Modernization Ground Control Software Update to AEP 5.50D Set for Friday March 3, 2010 Building on the January 2010 upgrade to the GPS ground control segment, on Friday Air Force Space Command will be installing another software release, AEP 5.5D, primarily designed...

NOTICE ADVISORY TO NAVSTAR USERS (NANU) 2010045 NANU TYPE: GENERAL *** GENERAL MESSAGE TO ALL GPS USERS *** Reference NANU 2010041. This is a reminder of an upcoming event related to the GPS satellite constellation. The 2nd Space Operations Squadron will be installing a ground software upgrade on 5 March 2010 (J064). There are no planned GPS satellite outages for this activity, and...

BLUETOOTH PIONEER CSR has been showing off the results of its purchase last year of GPS technology market leader SiRF, which gave it a foothold in the lucrative market for location-aware devices. Products from the two companies have been integrated into a platform called Trinity, suitable for connected devices bundling satnav and multimedia facilities, It comprises two CRS chips - one for audio,...

Earth knocked for a loop Chile’s February 27 temblor, tectonically linked to another giant quake 50 years ago, sped up the Earth’s rotation and tipped the planet’s axis. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/56903/title/Earth_knocked_for_a_loop_

Is it possible to get the IGS station data (for example compressed RINEX file format) at real-time or close to real-time? I mean, will the data collected at an IGS station be available to the public either real-time or in a few hours? Thank you. Johnson --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---

March 2, 2010 GRAPHICAL DISPLAY OF OPUS-RS ACCURACIES (UPDATED WEEKLY) To know the approximate accuracy of OPUS-RS solutions as a function of geographic location, click the following two graphs: a) 15 minutes session accuracy Horizontal accuracy: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUSI/Plots/OPUSRSall-h.15-min.png

GLONASS Succeeds with Another Satellite Launch Inside GNSS Russian Space Forces successfully launched three GLONASS satellites from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan on March 2, at 00:19 Moscow time (22:19 GMT, March 1).The launch had been postponed from last September after an anomaly was discovered in one of the on-orbit space vehicles (SVs) navigation payload. On February 26,...

March 2, 2010 FTP AND UFCORS STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY 2010 FTP server statistics for Feb 2010 Total Requests: 1649608 (all FTP requests logged) Total Data Transferred: 373456 MB (all files) Requests for RINEX data: 1487109 (90% of total requests) 2010 data: 1269117 (85% of RINEX requests)

Future Augmented March 1, 2010 By: Juan Blanch, Per Enge, Todd Walter GPS World Coverage Improvement for Dual-Frequency SBAS http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/augmentation-assistance/future-augmented-9606?print=1 After reviewing current performance of WAAS, EGNOS, and MSAS, the authors present expected future performance, including the benefits of GPS L5. They evaluate the impact of the...

The geometry would seem to indicate GPS jamming. !GPS 02/103 (KZLA A0303/10) ZLA NAV GPS IS UNRELIABLE AND MAY BE UNAVAILABLE WITHIN A 390NM RADIUS OF THE BEATTY /BTY/ VOR 057.64 DEGREE RADIAL AT 058.385NM OR 37190.8N/1154250W AT FL400 DECREASING IN AREA WITH DECREASE IN ALTITUDE TO 325NM RADIUS AT FL250, 315NM RADIUS AT 10000 FT MSL, AND 240NM RADIUS AT 4,000 FT AGL. THE IMPACT AREA ALSO...

The US Air Force is changing the GPS constellation, from a 24 satellite optimization to a 24+3 optimization scheme. This will lower dilution of precision (DOP) world wide - but by how much? I did an analysis of the current and new optimized constellation and detailed the results he http://blogs.agi.com/navigationAccuracy/?p=315

FY2011 GPS BUDGET PROPOSAL allocates $1.057 billion for Department of Defense GPS-related procurement and development activities and nearly $180 million to the Department of Transportation for civil GPS programs. http://www.insidegnss.com/node/1926

"Charles" charlesschuler@comcast.net wrote in message news:hmevfr$pqc$1@news.eternal-september.org... .... The first problem is the data base. As routes change, it is difficult to keep them up-to-date. ... that can trump common sense! Hi, I got stuck in Oregon in 2007 due to a washout twenty years ago and a reroute to a

2010-02-27 new GIS programs added please send e-mail to : ola 'AT' mail 'DOT' gr , ola3 'AT' mailbox 'DOT' gr , ( please substitute 'AT' with '@' , and 'DOT' with '.' ) , ola@mail.gr, ola3@mailbox.gr, http://sites.google.com/site/telvvcd/loadsofgreatsoftware ESRI ArcGis Desktop 9.3.1 with SP1 (1 dvd) ACDSee Canvas with GIS+ 11.2 Build 1269 | 81,01 Mb

Need a listing for portable Gps units that you can load both regular and topo maps at the same time?

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/raytheon-wins-886-million-contract-to-develop-next-generation-gps-control-segment-85472727.html

This may have been covered in the past but I just started to think about it this week. I saw a GolfLogix unit at a local golf star and got interested. The store wanted list, $300, but I found it on the internet for $175. Apparently, you have to have a $30/year subscription to download more than one course, so it is really over $200 for the first year. I don't know what else might be out...

GPS Slider Phone Panasonic P-02B, 8-Megapixel Camera http://www.techespot.com/2010/02/gps-slider-phone-panasonic-p-02b-8.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8533157.stm

February 17, 2010 THE FIRST GPS IIF SATELLITE DELIVERED TO CAPE CANAVERAL MEDIA RELEASE: Global Positioning Systems Wing Delivers First GPS IIF Space Vehicle to Cape Canaveral AFS Los Angeles Air Force Base 16 February, 2010

February 22, 2010 FROM THE NEWS President Proposes $1.23 Billion for GPS in FY 2011 Budget Inside GNSS 19 February, 2010 President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2011 (FY11) would allocate $1.057 billion for Department of Defense (DoD) GPS-related

"Car thief gangs have begun using imported GPS jammers to allow them to escape tracking technology." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/23/car_theft_gps_jam/ It looks like gps jammers may be useful to toll evaders too in the parts of the world where GPS position loggers are being used to automatically charge people when they drive on certain roads. -wolfgang

Other than a computer with map software, what other devices (like a PDA) would a USB GPS Stick be used with? I'm trying to find a small device that could be used for hikin n bikin with regular and/or topo map software.

I'm looking for a moving maps application under unix/linux, preferably with (geo)tiffs. -- -- What's on Shortwave guide: choose an hour, go! http://shortwave.tk 700+ Radio Stations on SW http://swstations.tk 300+ languages on SW http://radiolanguages.tk

I want to show some kind of geotiffs in a moving map application under unix(linux). I found such an app, but it needs BSB format. (do you know one which uses "native" geotiffs?) I have the tif2bsb application (from libbsb-0.0.7), but I need to make KAP files automatically, with the GEO info in it. tif2bsb

AEP 5.5c Update Update: Bugs Identified, Being Fixed February 11, 2010 http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/news/aep-55c-update-update-bugs-identified-being-fixed-9525?print=1 Here is the latest on the AEP 5.5 update and and another error that actually occurred two weeks later. On January 11, 2010 when the GPW Wing and the 2SOPS loaded the updated AEP 5.5C software to the "B" side of the...

Ref: http://gps.afspc.af.mil/gps/Current/current.oa1 http://gps.afspc.af.mil/gps/Current/current.nnu http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps/geninfo/NANUabbr.htm NOTICE ADVISORY TO NAVSTAR USERS (NANU) 2010030 SUBJ: SVN61 (PRN02) FORECAST OUTAGE SUMMARY JDAY 047/1438 - JDAY 047/1810 1. NANU TYPE: FCSTSUMM NANU NUMBER: 2010030 NANU DTG: 161814Z FEB 2010

Let's hope for a flawless prelaunch checkout. http://www.afspc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123190456 --- CHAS

You've seen them on ariplanes: a map with the airplane superimposed as to the location of the flight. I want to do something similar for a tourist ship, but use a printed nautical chart, a GPS, and a HDTV, and (if necessary) a computer. I can get the nautical chart into GIF, TIF, JPG, or PDF format. Anyone know of software for this? Any other hardware required?

Our auroral forecast website is down. The effects of the small solar flares of the 13th and 14th of February 2010 have reached the ACE satellite have already begun to be observed by magnetometers in the Alaskan Chain. We expect auroral activity at least equal to that of Estimated Planetary Index, Kp = 4. A map of the expected midnight distribution of aurora is attached to this email.

Ref: http://gps.afspc.af.mil/gps/Current/current.oa1 http://gps.afspc.af.mil/gps/Current/current.nnu http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps/geninfo/NANUabbr.htm NOTICE ADVISORY TO NAVSTAR USERS (NANU) 2010029 SUBJ: SVN51 (PRN20) UNUSABLE JDAY 046/0806 - UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE 1. NANU TYPE: UNUSUFN NANU NUMBER: 2010029 NANU DTG: 150937Z FEB 2010

Saturday was evidently the last day for the old Coast Guard Loran system. Now it's all GPS and of course the speculation is that the increasing sun spots will foul it up. I don't think we had much problem with sun spots in the previous cycle. I think that the Air Force forced the Coast Guard away from e-Loran which was designed to supplement the current GNSS system. e-Loran would have used...

It has happened, a rider gets thrown and the horse takes off, gets lost, can't be found days or even weeks later. What tracker solutions are available that, for example, could be carried in a saddle bag and activated on some sort of a "where are you" signal ? I assume some sort of "service" would be required, probably expensive, but I would like to gather info anyway. Free would be nice (-:

Has anybody heard if the Wing has authorized Boeing to ship the IIF SV1 to the Cape in preparation for launch this year? --Mike Jr.

How can I discover what's the GPS model (i.e. SiRF Star III) in Nokia mobile phones (i.e. Nokia E52)? QU

GLONASS at 18 with Three More Satellites Operational http://www.questexenews.com/t.do?id=4247692:20351432 The three new GLONASS-M satellites launched on December 14 have been set operational: GLONASS 730 in orbital slot 1, was set healthy on January 30. This brings to 18 the number of satellites currently in service, although GLONASS 722 continues to provide a healthy signal only on its...

Problems with GPS Ground Control Software Update: AEP 5.5C http://www.questexenews.com/t.do?id=4247687:20351432 The GPS Wing and 2SOPS (2nd Space Operations Squadron) initiated a software update of the ground command and control (C2) system for GPS on January 11, 2010. The update has not gone as smoothly as planned, and the second of two NANUs has now appeared. More... ...

Swiss company u-blox has acquired a significant share of the digital camera geotagging market via acquisitions, and for a relatively small amount of cash. The ultra low power chips should have other applications (e.g., asset tracking). This press release was echoed by a few web sites last week: http://www.u-blox.com/en/press-and-events/press-release-archive/889.html "February 1, 2010 –...

NOTICE ADVISORY TO NAVSTAR USERS (NANU) 2010022 NANU TYPE: GENERAL *** GENERAL MESSAGE TO ALL GPS USERS *** Attention military users with SAASM receivers. For information about an anomaly on a limited number of these receivers, please go to http://gpsoc.afspc.af.smil.mil, contact the GPS Wing Crisis Team (CAT) at 310-653-3085, or contact the GPSOC at (719) 567-2541. Also reference previous...

I have used my Garmin 660 successfully with my SPV but now that I have upgraded to a Nokia 5800, I cannot get the Garmin to recognise the phone. I checked the Garmin site and this model is not listed. Does anyone know if another model setting would work? I want the handsfree feature to work. Thank you. LC

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