How has your/our use of modern GPS and map programs changed how we navigate? In the past people had to buy maps to find locations and to get there. It would take minutes or even longer to find a location in the map. For those driving longer distances, they would have to make more frequent stops to check if they are in the right direction. Other people who didn’t know how to read maps; they would get lost fast and will probably take longer time to find a place to ask for directions. This entire struggle to get to our destination has changed during the past years. Now it’s much easier to find places with the new navigation system, it was created to help people drive and get faster to their destination. The global positioning system (GPS) is …show more content…
Also new cars were built with their own navigation system, but GPS’s not only help people with directions, it also helps drivers to save gas. Accurate driving directions not only will save people time, but gas money when traveling to many places. Another, important reason to have a GPS’s it helps businesses to keep track of their vehicles, like for delivery services that hired drivers to use their vehicles, it must have a tracking device to know the location of the employee when driving the vehicle. GPS receivers are being made smaller and more affordable making the technology more accessible to everyone. As mentioned before, GPS’s are the best and most popular navigation system, but GPS has their negatives as well, it works with signal sent from the device to a satellite and then send it back to the device; therefore, without signal the GPS are useless, it won’t give directions, and this could happen in valleys, mountains or other places where satellite signal is blocked. As mention before the GPS is a rapid growth technology, which provides excellent and accurate positional tracking and can be used for other many things. It is amazing how quickly these technologies
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Although this service sounds quite convenient and has its obvious benefits, there are other issues to be considered. For example, many ethical dilemmas that play from privacy issues. In a world when at one time you could take a walk to remove yourself from the eye of another, we not may be under constant supervision of sorts. Tracking devises are easily placed in many things, cell phones, which are used by nearly all people in today's American society, are the recent and most wide spread target for GPS. Is it ethical to track someone through an everyday devices such as a cell phone, is tracking people ethical in itself? These are the questions that must be resolved before we can celebrate the positives of such technological advancements.
Jane Rogers the financial manager at Plants Inc. a landscaping business in Chicago concurs that employers should ethically implement the use of GPS tracking in their companies. Rogers uses GPS to track and monitor outfield workers during working hours and argues that it increases efficiency and promotes confidence in prompt services to clients. Rogers supports the need for restrictive and regulative legislation in GPS tracking to create parameters within which employers can operate and be held accountable. She points out that she passively tracks employees during working hours and only resorts to active monitoring of employees after she has received complaints from clients. Rogers also states that she reminds her employees to turn-off their
Ken Jennings was a map nerd from a young age himself, you will not be surprised to learn, even sleeping with an old creased atlas at the side of his pillow, most kids his age were cuddling with a trusted blanket- Jennings was not. As he travels the world meeting people of kindred spirits--map librarians, publishers, geocachers, and the engineers behind google maps. Now that technology and geographic unknowing is increasingly insulting us from the space and land around us, we are going to be needing these people more than ever. Mapheads are the ones who always know exactly where they are and...
A prime example of this is satellite navigation; which is what people often think of when they hear “GPS,” acronym for Global Positioning System. Satellite navigation, sometimes shortened to Sat Nav, allows for users to pinpoint their location with about 7.8 meter accuracy 95% of the time, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. It is used by people all over the world for countless purposes such as; navigating roads, helping search and rescue efforts, piloting planes, environmental protection, and military operations (“GPS
The invention of the GPS started with Dr. Ivan Getting leaving his position at Raytheon Company, and armed with the knowledge of what was at the time the most advanced navigational technology in the world, they began developing the Global Positioning System. He, Roger L. Easton, and Bradford Parkison began in the 60’s with a constellation of 24 satellites (placed in six orbital planes) orbiting the earth at a very high altitude (about
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) became introduced by computers. Geographers were also given opportunities from The Environmental Movement. The 'Space Age' caused the development of Global Positioning Systems. From 1970 to today's society
The system often hid from the public to protect them. A GPS is a signal to receive, navigate or track a position a speed. The GPS may often be used onto satellites that can support more than twenty in the orbit. The rockets make use the GPS to be found once it approaches its destination or even give a message to a location. NASA is prepared for the next big leap in humanity “Nuclear fusion rockets.” This future idea will open up the solar system and gives a bigger opportunity in human exploration. This will also improve the speed for launching to another planet and even the closest planet is extremely for with Venus at 25,476,219 miles! Now a days researches argue that there may be life on Mars. Astronauts that have been often do report on things they observe in space. If there really is life on mars as told by NASA “Impactite, shown to preserve signs of life on Earth, was discovered on mass and could contain signs of ancient life, if life ever excited on the planet. “This could change the future for humanity forever, this all started with simple mind of curious man. Imagen what future generations will accomplish while creating new technology’s In addition to satellites, GPS systems, GPS trackers. If the rocket improves then more will be found in
...regarded GPS – an indispensable part of GIS. Discussions on cartographic principles, commercial GIS software programs, satellite images, aerial photos, and geodatabases are some of the other conspicuous omissions in this book. There is an inconsistency in the depth of topics explored; for example map projections are explored in great depth, while vector topology is merely glossed over. These omissions and inconsistencies would in my opinion make this book marginally less beneficial to all the three audiences together. However, there is something for all them; structure for engineers, equations for engineers and students, and GIS concepts for students, engineers and users. This book will therefore be undeniably valuable if used to complement the material in some of the other fundamental GIS books in the discipline. It has merits, but there is room for improvement.
The following is a brief illustration of the principles of GPS. For more information see previous chapter. The Global positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-base navigation system that provides a user with proper equipment access to positioning information. The most commonly used approaches for GPS positioning are the Iterative Least Square (ILS) and the Kalman Filter (EKF) methods. Both of them are based on psuedorange equation:
GPS systems in earlier history, were primarily used by the military branches of our government to compete with other nations we had been fighting against. At the time, many people were trying to make that technology accessible to the public living in the United States. The idea of adding a GPS inside of a cell phone came to reality briefly before the year 2000. From then on, the GPS technology in cellphones has sophisticated in such a way never imaginable. A lot of good has come from this technology, but there has also been a lot of bad that has come from it as well.
Tracking teens could potentially prevent them from doing drugs and befriending questionable people. To add on to this point, if teens were to be tracked then parents would know if they were kidnapped resulting in a higher chance of saving their children. Finally, were parents to know where their children are would allow them to feel more secure and relieved. “Mark Pawlick says he used to live in constant worry about his teenage kids-especially his stepdaughter, Jessica.”(www.npr.org)As a result of this GPS parents won't feel this constant worry.
where you are, and the navigation system makes it impossible to get lost in the
There was a time a person would use a roadmap to get from one location to another. Some also would stop and ask for directions. Today, you seldom see paper maps and people stopping at a local gas station for directions. Many vehicles come with a navigation system that provides a real-time map of the vehicle’s current location as well as systematic directions to requested destination.
...uch easier to locate. GPS has had a far reaching effect on how we move from place to place whether the passenger knows it or not. There are too many effects that gps has had for me to keep this short, but gps has made its mark however, gps is not a replacement for good old fashioned navigational skills it is just a convenience.