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

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"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

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

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

THE DEATH KNELL has sounded for satnav companies like Tomtom with the news that Nokia's Ovi Maps has clocked up 1.4 million downloads since its relaunch less than a fortnight ago. Much more at http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1590230/ovi-maps

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?

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...

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

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.

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... ...

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...