Mobile navigation apps such as Google Maps and Waze have become incredibly popular, and almost everybody uses them. There's a good explanation for this. Everybody owns a phone, and running them behind ...

On a trip to Oregon's Willamette Valley in the spring of 2010, I was using the Google-powered Maps app on an iPhone 3GS to hunt down wineries while my friend drove. That's farm country, and driving on ...

The oft-quoted saying “all models are wrong, but some are useful” is a tounge-in-cheek way of saying that at some level, tools we use to predict how the world behaves will differ from reality in some ...

No audio available for this content. The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is now developing the 2022 transformation model. Once again, NGS requests the assistance of the surveying and mapping community.

Most advances in technology have been for the good and occasionally are even transformative. Being able to travel long distances by plane rather than trains or cars was a big one. And then came the ...

December 14, 2006 Calabash’s new World Explorer, is a hand-held, digital GPS travel guide that is now available for daily rental to St. Thomas USVI visitors. The number of useful gadgets for ...

Have you ever gotten lost while driving? Probably not recently thanks to GPS navigation. The touchscreen navigation/infotainment system in every new car or truck that some colloquially refer to as ...