NASA Science News for March 11, 2010 Widespread press reports have noted that February's Chilean earthquake might have shortened Earth's day by a small amount. Today's story from Science@NASA explores a more significant effect---how the quake might have shifted Earth's axis. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/11mar_figureaxis.htm?list1371687

I need to replace a StreetPilot 2610, trying to determine which current models (Garmin or other mfg) are closest in functionality and user interface. Any ideas? Thanks! -- I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. ....Groucho Marx

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_

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 &...

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: ---

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,...

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)

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

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 (-:

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...

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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" wrote in message ... .... 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

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