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Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV | Threat Level | Wired.com

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:21:56 +0000

The 25-year-old resident of San Jose, California, says he found the first one about three weeks ago on his Volvo SUV while visiting his mother in Modesto, about 80 miles northeast of San Jose. After contacting Wired and allowing a photographer to snap pictures of the device, it was swapped out and replaced with a second tracking device. A witness also reported seeing a strange man looking beneath the vehicle of the young man’s girlfriend while her car was parked at work, suggesting that a tracking device may have been retrieved from her car. I wonder what kind of hubbub it would cause if someone put a tracker in the tracker and figured out where it went when it got retrieved?

Tags: #gps #law #police #surveillance

Arduino GPS System | Sean Carney's Website

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:24:04 +0000

"A fully functional GPS receiver with the ability to display the current location, heading, speed, average speed and maximum speed, the distance traveled, the bearing, distance and ETA for a way-point, and the date and time."

Tags: #android #electronics #gps #hardware

JSON Location Tracker - PreCentral Forums

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:13:27 +0000

"This app is a single card that controls all the aspects of posting location data to a website: the post URL, the speed of GPS reading collection, and the size of the buffer."

Tags: #gps #location #palm #webos

GPS-led travel goes amiss; 3 Ore. parties rescued - Yahoo! News

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:41:39 +0000

"If you are following your GPS and all of a sudden you find yourself in the middle of nowhere with snow all around, don't go there. Turn around."

Tags: #driving #gps #maps #morons

Self-Steered Tractors and UAVs: Future Farming Is (Finally) Now | Wired Science | Wired.com

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:56:02 +0000

"The new precision farmers are hacking together a way of making food in which the virtual and physical worlds are so tightly bound that having his tractor steered by GPS-guidance with inch-level accuracy is ho-hum. "

Tags: #agriculture #farming #gps #robotics #tech

A new (and different) geo platform - (BlockChalk Blog)

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:14:42 +0000

"We’ve just released a brand new API for BlockChalk. It’s very easy to learn and use: requests are made via HTTP GET and POST, and data is provided in XML, JSON, and RSS formats. These new interfaces enable developers to do nearly everything that you can do at http://blockchalk.com. It’s now possible to build client applications, mash-ups, and other tools based on BlockChalk geolocation data and services."

Tags: #apis #blockchalk #geo #gps #mobile #nifty #webdev

Car Navigation Map in Canvas

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:25:14 +0000

"Taking the code made by Jacob on his Mario Kart demo I thought why not give it a try using the tiles of Yahoo or Google maps to create the same effect as in the GPS systems"

Tags: #canvas #google #googlemaps #gps #javascript #maps #mariokart #webdev

Ultrafit: Tapping his way along the Appalachian Trail

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:01:39 +0000

"With the help of a voice-enabled GPS, Minneapolis attorney Mike Hanson, who is blind, is training for the hike of a lifetime." Seems inspiring, yet ill-fated.

Tags: #appalachian #blind #gps #hiking #trail

Navigating With Feedback From Fellow Drivers - New York Times

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:54:41 +0000

"There’s this long chain of cars up ahead. What if the cars could talk to one another?"

Tags: #automotive #gadgets #gps #navigation #p2p #traffic

geocoder.us: a free US address geocoder

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:21:31 +0000

"find the latitude & longitude of any US address - for free"

Tags: #geocoder #geography #gps

Forerunner 201

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:10:12 +0000

"The Forerunner™ 201 offers athletes an easy-to-read display, ergonomic wristband, and integrated GPS sensor that provides precise speed, distance, and pace data. It's a compact, lightweight, accurate training assistant with performance tracking, auto-l

Tags: #gadgets #gps #wishlist