May 3, 2016: Torrey Pines Gliderport, CA
May 3, 2016
Sometimes a GPS can take you to just where you would have wanted to go if you had known it was waiting there for you…
Sometimes a GPS can take you to just where you would have wanted to go if you had known it was waiting there for you…
Photo: simplesucker.com (makers of plastic windshield mount for phone) Getting ready for a road trip still calls for packing and getting in the car, but
A dog-sled team had to be sent out to rescue two tourists in Norway’s Arctic north after their GPS sent them down the shortest line
Since July, the software for Garmin’s popular GPS devices has tried to direct a bonanza of tourist traffic to Preitenegg, Austria, seen above. Perhaps you’ve never heard of Preitenegg? No surprise: It has fewer than 1000 residents.
Imagine sitting in your armchair with a virtual-reality helmet and a remote control and “visiting” the streets of your favorite city, an art gallery, the Grand Canyon, or…? There have long been travel documentaries and the like for armchair…
Five blind or partially blind hikers, with the help of an innovative GPS-enabled smartphone app, completed a 6-day, 80 kilometre hike in the Vosges mountain range last week—unaccompanied by sighted guides.
A fleet of Google’s mapping cars…now Apple is doing the same Photo: westbayhomes.org Apple, whose 2012 Maps application got no love as a replacement for Google Maps on Apple devices, is…
Don’t always believe it when your GPS doesn’t make sense…or even sometimes when it does. HERE is the story of an American couple who followed their GPS on a route for Tenby Island, off the coast of Wales and actually not reachable except by boat.
There’s a new GPS app asking for attention. Scout, from skobbler, a subsidiary of map supplier Telenav, is free like Google, and offers offline functions like the dedicated GPS boxes. The free version provides online use and offline use…
A recent news post on Travelgumbo mentioned Flight Map , an Android app that can give you a live flight map display on your phone, even in “airplane mode,” with the cellular radio features turned off. It works by combining known information on…
Sometimes a GPS can take you to just where you would have wanted to go if you had known it was waiting there for you…
Photo: simplesucker.com (makers of plastic windshield mount for phone) Getting ready for a road trip still calls for packing and
A dog-sled team had to be sent out to rescue two tourists in Norway’s Arctic north after their GPS sent
Since July, the software for Garmin’s popular GPS devices has tried to direct a bonanza of tourist traffic to Preitenegg, Austria, seen above. Perhaps you’ve never heard of Preitenegg? No surprise: It has fewer than 1000 residents.
Imagine sitting in your armchair with a virtual-reality helmet and a remote control and “visiting” the streets of your favorite city, an art gallery, the Grand Canyon, or…? There have long been travel documentaries and the like for armchair…
Five blind or partially blind hikers, with the help of an innovative GPS-enabled smartphone app, completed a 6-day, 80 kilometre hike in the Vosges mountain range last week—unaccompanied by sighted guides.
A fleet of Google’s mapping cars…now Apple is doing the same Photo: westbayhomes.org Apple, whose 2012 Maps application got no love as a replacement for Google Maps on Apple devices, is…
Don’t always believe it when your GPS doesn’t make sense…or even sometimes when it does. HERE is the story of an American couple who followed their GPS on a route for Tenby Island, off the coast of Wales and actually not reachable except by boat.
There’s a new GPS app asking for attention. Scout, from skobbler, a subsidiary of map supplier Telenav, is free like Google, and offers offline functions like the dedicated GPS boxes. The free version provides online use and offline use…
A recent news post on Travelgumbo mentioned Flight Map , an Android app that can give you a live flight map display on your phone, even in “airplane mode,” with the cellular radio features turned off. It works by combining known information on…