The 2018-19 budget reveals details of the government’s funding for its efforts to promote a domestic space industry as well as new initiatives intended to boost Australian businesses access to location technology, including better GPS performance.
A two-year government-backed trial of technologies that could boost the accuracy of GPS and similar location technologies has officially launched.
The government has announced it will spend $12 million on a program intended to deliver positioning technology that offers better accuracy than standard GPS.
Researchers from Curtin University have discovered how to integrate Global Positioning System (GPS) technology with the emerging multi-frequency Global Navigation Satellite System, Galileo.
The Queensland government has awarded a contract for the supply of GPS monitoring technology to track sex offenders across the state.
We've been down this road before: A trusting soul gets bum directions from a GPS navigation system, winds up in the middle of nowhere, and may or may not survive the ordeal.
The story of a Nevada couple, who followed their GPS unit's directions and ended up stuck in snow for three days, reminds us that we, not the GPS, are responsible for where we drive. But, there are still things GPS makers could and should do that might help.