With the implementation of today’s powerful corporate and personal GPS location tracking systems and a large choice of car GPS receivers many logistics companies are efficiently driving up their resource utilization rates.
.A modern fleet GPS tracking system allows a logistics planner to significantly cut operating costs and provides the company or an individual with a significant return on investment.
GPS tracking works thanks to a large satellite-based navigation system that's made up of a space
network of 24 satellites placed into
Earth orbit by the U.S. Defence
Department. Equally to the
sat nav, GPS tracking
works anywhere in the world, in any
weather conditions, 24 hours a day.
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Live online maps are getting more and more popular among internet users and attract a lot of new visitors every day. Internet maps make it very easy and convenient for anyone to just find a place on a map, get driving directions or enjoy live satellite imagery and aerial photo views.
The most popular live mapping websites are Google Maps, Bing Maps (initially Live Search Maps) and MapQuest. Basically all these online atlases and location finding services are very similar and have comparable features, but if you are a real fan of online world maps and atlases, every of these services may offer you something special. This means that in some cases you may build you own preference by using the interface and features of an online cartography tool over another.
Maybe one of the most popular approaches to compare Internet maps is the exploration of the 'aerial view' and 'satellite view' features that use 3D streaming technology along with aerial or spacial imagery. These large scale features let the user enjoy exploring places and topographic objects from a satellite or aerial view in 3D perspective. One of the best example of 3D mapping tools is the widely known feature from Microsoft - Bird's Eye View.
Another very popular function available to explore thanks to some on-line cartographic interfaces is so-called "street maps". This technology was initially featured on Google Maps and Google Earth as Street Views. A bit later Microsoft launched by a similar function - StreetSide View - on their Live Search Maps (now Bing Maps). Both solutions enable panoramic imagery of street-level scenes with views from various positions along many streets and roads in the world.
Iran has threatened to has threatened to undertake legal action against Google for dropping the name of Persian Gulf from their online maps According to the Press TV, an Iranian state-run TV channel and IRNA, state-run news agency, Iran will sue Google for removing the name of the Persian Gulf on Google Maps. On Thursday May, 17, …
Read more »LightSquared Inc., a satellite mobile network company based in Reston, Virginia, is seeking to keep its permits to deploy a U.S. nationwide wireless system. The company filed for bankruptcy after the Federal Communications Commission announced that its proposed country-wide mobile data network would disrupt GPS system. The LightSquared’s executive Vice President Jeffrey Carlisle says that the FCC shouldn’t revoke permits as …
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