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| To measure the time taken by the wave to reach it, the GPS receiver compares the transmission time (included in the signal) and reception ti...

| Position determination is all the rage. The manufacturer of the well-known TomTom navigation system has become a publicly traded company, an...

| A (frequently unfulfilled) ambition of every robot builder is to make their machine capable of autonomous navigation. This is an ideal appli...

| The lack of availability of integrated modules in small quantities has until now been an obstacle to building a GPS receiver yourself. Now t...

| Modern GPS navigation aids achieve remarkable accuracy in comparison but when the satellite signal gets weak or obscured they still need to...

| GPS modules with NMEA output are available for less than 80 pounds, and compact hand-held GPS units with the interface are now hardly any mo...

| A CD-ROM containing the equivalent of a trunk full of maps can provide the database for a computer-controlled navigation system in mot...

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| In spite of the precision of the GPS (Global Positioning System), the simplest way to determine direction and location is still by a m...