Slashdot Items Tagged "navigation"

Date / Time Story
Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:06PM Google Maps Can Now Navigate Inside Tunnels
Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:11PM TomTom Creates AI-Based Conversational Assistant For Vehicles With Microsoft
Monday August 07, 2023 @05:06PM 'Google Maps Has Become an Eyesore'
Friday March 17, 2023 @04:55PM TomTom Joins the OpenStreetMap Foundation As Its First Platinum Member
Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:12PM Astronomer Makes Navigation System For Interstellar Space Travel
Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:11PM GPS and Water Don't Mix. So Scientists Have Found a New Way To Navigate Under the Sea
Friday September 04, 2020 @04:33PM Huawei Finally Launches Brilliant Google Alternative
Tuesday August 18, 2020 @05:29PM Google Maps Is Getting a Lot More Detail
Monday August 10, 2020 @05:05PM Google Maps Is Coming To Apple Watch, Adding CarPlay Dashboard Support
Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:47PM Garmin Services and Production Go Down After Ransomware Attack
Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:25PM Can Astronauts Use GPS To Navigate On the Moon?
Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:01PM Facebook Trains An AI To Navigate Without Needing a Map
Monday November 18, 2019 @10:38PM MIT Teaches Autonomous Cars How To Deal With Selfish Drivers
Friday October 11, 2019 @04:30PM A Look at Earth Archive, a Project To Produce Detailed Maps of All the Land on Earth Through Laser Scanning
Monday September 09, 2019 @10:44AM The Fake Town Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Friday August 16, 2019 @06:00PM Huawei Is Working On Its Own Version of Google Maps
Friday August 16, 2019 @02:37PM What3Words: The App That Can Save Your Life
Friday July 26, 2019 @09:54AM Get Off My Lawn! Homeowners Ward Off Drivers Misled by GPS
Thursday July 25, 2019 @08:54AM AI is Supercharging the Creation of Maps Around the World
Monday June 10, 2019 @05:18PM Google Maps Will Tell You If Your Taxi Driver Is Veering Off Course To Rack Up a Higher Fare
Monday May 27, 2019 @12:56PM Apple Starts Collecting Data For Apple Maps in Canada
Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:50PM UK's National Mapping Agency is Working on a Project To Create Almost Real-Time Maps of Streets
Tuesday April 02, 2019 @04:50PM Satellite Airliner Tracking Over Oceans Goes Global
Monday February 11, 2019 @12:50PM It's the Real World -- With Google Maps Layered on Top
Sunday February 10, 2019 @06:15PM Wayward Satellites Test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Wednesday December 26, 2018 @06:41PM A Man Spent $5,000 of His Own Money To Put Zimbabwe on Street View
Sunday December 23, 2018 @11:16PM Ride Sharing Service Grab is Messing up the World's Largest Mapping Community's Data in Southeast Asia
Sunday December 23, 2018 @06:01PM The GPS Wars Have Begun
Friday November 30, 2018 @05:04PM Researchers Are Proposing a New Way To Generate Street Addresses by Extracting Roads From Satellite Images
Thursday October 18, 2018 @04:35AM Adding Sensors To Every Ship Entering the Arctic Could Help Map the Uncharted Seafloor
Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:45PM Google Maps Adds EV Charging Station Info
Monday September 10, 2018 @01:41PM 'You Can See Almost Everything.' Antarctica Just Became the Best-Mapped Continent on Earth
Monday August 27, 2018 @06:58PM Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing To OpenStreetMap
Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:10PM As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume
Friday July 27, 2018 @03:46PM What OpenStreetMap Can Be
Thursday July 12, 2018 @06:39AM A Look at Street Network Orientation in Major US Cities
Friday June 29, 2018 @11:59AM Apple is Rebuilding Maps From the Ground Up
Friday June 15, 2018 @01:14PM Apple Maps Was Down For All Users Earlier Today
Monday June 04, 2018 @05:31PM Apple CarPlay Will Now Support Third-Party Navigation and Mapping Apps
Friday May 11, 2018 @02:57PM 'Father of GPS' Receives the IEEE Medal of Honor
Friday May 11, 2018 @02:45PM AI Trained To Navigate Develops Brain-Like Location Tracking
Tuesday May 08, 2018 @04:41PM Google Maps Is Getting AR Directions, Recommendation Features
Tuesday May 08, 2018 @03:50PM Google Details New Android P Features, Including iPhone X-Like Gesture Controls
Friday April 20, 2018 @02:28PM No One Knows How Long the US Coastline Is
Thursday April 19, 2018 @12:33PM Turn Right at the Burger King: Google Maps Begins Using Landmarks To Help With Guidance
Wednesday April 18, 2018 @04:45PM Autonomous Boats Will Be On the Market Sooner Than Self-Driving Cars
Friday April 13, 2018 @04:55PM Google Appears To Be Testing iPhone X-Style Gesture Navigation In Android P
Wednesday April 11, 2018 @07:47PM New Navigation App 'Live Roads' Promises 1.5m-Accuracy With Standard Cellphone Hardware
Friday March 30, 2018 @02:54PM A Struggling Town Is Reviving Itself With... Geocaching
Sunday March 18, 2018 @05:53PM Mapping Apps Like Waze, Google Maps, and Apple Maps May Make Traffic Conditions Worse in Some Areas, New Research Suggests
Friday February 16, 2018 @06:16PM The Future of Free and Open-Source Maps
Wednesday February 07, 2018 @01:06PM Before They Can Drive a Taxi, London's Cabbies Have To Commit the City To Memory in a Rigorous Test Called the Knowledge
Monday January 15, 2018 @11:32AM Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't
Monday November 13, 2017 @07:25PM Uber Drivers In Lagos Are Using a Fake GPS App To Inflate Rider Fares
Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:00PM The Fourth US Navy Collision of the Year Was Ultimately Caused By UI Confusion
Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:36AM This Company Is Crowdsourcing Maps For Self-Driving Cars
Monday October 02, 2017 @11:26AM Navy Returns to Compasses and Pencils To Help Avoid Collisions at Sea
Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:13PM Cyber Threats Prompt Return of Radio For Ship Navigation
Friday March 24, 2017 @02:50PM How Noisy Is Your Neighborhood? Now There's A Map For That
Tuesday March 21, 2017 @06:56PM Satellite Navigation 'Switches Off' Parts of Brain Used For Navigation, Study Finds
Monday March 20, 2017 @12:16PM Boston Public Schools Map Switch Aims To Amend 500 Years of Distortion
Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:13PM Moto, Huawei Are Replacing the Android Keys With a Touchpad
Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:49AM Apple's iPhone 8 To Replace Touch ID Home Button With 'Function Area'
Thursday December 01, 2016 @06:42PM Apple Will Use Drones To Improve the Quality of Apple Maps
Thursday November 17, 2016 @07:50PM ESA Launches Four Galileo Satellites
Thursday November 10, 2016 @05:00PM China Launches World's First Pulsar Navigation Satellite
Thursday October 13, 2016 @07:06PM Google Creates AI Program That Uses Reasoning To Navigate the London Tube
Wednesday October 12, 2016 @04:01PM Most Drivers Who Own Cars With Built-in GPS Systems Use Phones For Directions - Mostly Out of Frustration
Monday September 26, 2016 @10:41AM HERE, Automakers Team Up To Share Data On Traffic Conditions
Friday September 09, 2016 @03:22PM Data Entry Blunders Force Air Asia Pilots To Land in Melbourne Instead of Malaysia
Wednesday August 24, 2016 @04:53PM Self-Driving Cars Aren't Going To Be So Great Until We Make Our Maps Better
Wednesday June 08, 2016 @02:41AM Many Lexus Navigation Systems Bricked By Over-The-Air Software Update
Tuesday June 07, 2016 @04:05PM FAA Warns of GPS Outages This Month During Mysterious Tests On the West Coast
Sunday May 01, 2016 @12:37PM What Happened to Google Maps?
Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:49PM Millions Of Waze Users Can Have Their Movements Tracked By Hackers
Monday April 11, 2016 @03:00PM Internet Mapping Glitch Turned a Random Kansas Farm Into a Digital Hell
Saturday April 02, 2016 @02:21AM North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals
Sunday March 27, 2016 @02:45PM Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error
Tuesday March 15, 2016 @01:48PM Once Pro-Microsoft, Here Maps Drops Support For Windows 10, Windows Phone
Thursday March 03, 2016 @10:41AM Skydio's Forthcoming Consumer Drones Can Sense and Avoid Obstacles
Thursday January 07, 2016 @11:26AM The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use
Tuesday December 08, 2015 @11:51AM Nokia Completes Sale of HERE Mapping Services
Saturday November 28, 2015 @07:15PM Swarm Robotics Breakthrough Brings Pheromone Communication To AI
Sunday November 15, 2015 @11:36AM GPS Always Overestimates Distances
Saturday October 17, 2015 @06:54PM Naval Academy Reinstates Teaching of Celestial Navigation
Friday October 16, 2015 @06:28PM Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly?
Tuesday September 29, 2015 @08:52AM John Harrison: Inventor and Longitude Hero
Tuesday July 14, 2015 @08:47AM Google To Reopen Maps To User Edits, With an Anti-Abuse Plan
Tuesday July 07, 2015 @04:30PM A Real-Time Map of All the Objects In Earth's Orbit
Friday June 26, 2015 @10:22AM How Etak Built a Car Navigation System In 1985
Tuesday May 19, 2015 @10:00AM Rockwell Collins To Develop Cockpit Display To Show Sonic Boom Over Land
Saturday May 02, 2015 @12:51AM The Pioneer Who Invented the Weather Forecast
Tuesday March 17, 2015 @08:18AM Hertz Puts Cameras In Its Rental Cars, Says It Has No Plans To Use Them
Thursday December 25, 2014 @12:03AM DARPA Wants Help Building a Drone That Flies Like a Hawk
Friday December 12, 2014 @10:54PM Google Earth API Will Be Retired On December 12, 2015
Thursday November 20, 2014 @11:36AM Google Maps Crunches Data, Tells You When To Drive On Thanksgiving
Friday November 14, 2014 @02:09PM Researchers Develop $60 Sonar Watch To Aid the Visually Impaired
Saturday November 01, 2014 @09:32AM World War II Tech eLoran Deployed As GPS Backup In the UK
Friday October 31, 2014 @07:23PM Researchers Claim Metal "Patch" Found On Pacific Island Is From Amelia Earhart
Tuesday October 07, 2014 @09:02AM Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded For "Brain GPS" Research
Thursday August 07, 2014 @09:43AM New Car Heads-Up Display To Be Controlled By Hand Gestures, Voice Commands
Friday May 23, 2014 @05:02PM Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites?
Thursday May 08, 2014 @11:21AM Electromagnetic Noise Found To Affect Bird Navigation
Saturday February 08, 2014 @09:53AM Dead Reckoning For Your Car Eliminates GPS Dead Zones
Thursday November 21, 2013 @09:36AM Galileo Navigation System Gets Go-Ahead From EU Parliament
Tuesday October 01, 2013 @09:37AM Bypassing US GPS Limits For Active Guided Rockets
Tuesday September 24, 2013 @01:18PM Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights
Friday April 12, 2013 @06:44PM DARPA Develops Non-GPS Navigation Chip
Saturday January 26, 2013 @10:51PM Dung Beetles Navigate By the Milky Way; Pigeons Tune In To Magnetism
Tuesday November 06, 2012 @02:01PM Neuromorphic Algorithms Allow MAVs To Avoid Obstacles With Single Camera
Thursday November 01, 2012 @08:03AM NASA Teams To Build Gyroscopes 1,000X More Sensitive Than Current Systems
Saturday October 06, 2012 @07:04PM Nokia Keeps Quietly Mapping The World
Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:22PM Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship?
Friday July 13, 2012 @06:34PM Google Maps Adds UK Cycling Directions
Tuesday July 10, 2012 @08:08AM Indoor Navigation On Your Smartphone, Using the Earth's Magnetic Field
Friday July 06, 2012 @01:58AM Ask Dr. Ramsey Faragher About Navigation/Positioning Technology
Tuesday July 03, 2012 @08:30AM NAVSOP Navigation System Rivals GPS
Monday April 02, 2012 @01:52PM Google Maps Directions Adds Real-Time Traffic Estimates
Friday January 27, 2012 @09:39PM North Star May Be Wasting Away
Sunday January 08, 2012 @12:25PM Microsoft Patents Bad Neighborhood Detection
Thursday December 29, 2011 @10:25AM Sun Storms May Affect Radios, Cell Phones Today
Tuesday December 27, 2011 @10:04AM China Begins Using New Global Positioning Satellites
Saturday May 28, 2011 @01:13PM Alaska Airlines Jettisons Paper Manuals For iPads
Tuesday November 09, 2010 @04:24PM Google Give Searchers 'Instant Previews' of Result Pages
Saturday April 24, 2010 @06:13PM Google Backpedals On Turn-By-Turn GPS For iPhone
Friday January 22, 2010 @03:51AM Nokia To Make GPS Navigation Free On Smartphones
Sunday October 18, 2009 @04:26PM iRobot Introduces Morphing Blob Robot
Wednesday September 30, 2009 @04:53PM Google Wants to Map Indoors, Too
Friday April 07, 2006 @06:04AM Satellite Navigation a Real Crackpot!