Government agencies are increasingly turning to high-precision aerial imagery to solve city-planning conundrums. Three recent case studies show how emergency 9-1-1 services gather data to provide ...

As part of The National Map transition to cloud hosting, several of the National Map Orthoimagery Services will be provided under new URLs by early December. One major change involves links to USDA ...

HONOLULU — Yesenia D’Alessandro loaded a GPS tracking app on her cellphone and trudged into a remote Hawaii forest, joining more than 100 other volunteers looking for a missing hiker. She climbed ...

It's a lot more than just driving directions. Managed by the US Space Force, GPS factors into a huge amount of the high-tech world we live in. Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where ...

We’re getting to a point where we can’t navigate even our own neighborhoods without the help of smartphones. Here’s an antidote. The more we drive with GPS–or walk down the sidewalk staring at ...

Many of us take navigation for granted; when we're lost, we simply pull out our phones and open Google Maps to find where we ...

The GPS III satellite armada will eventually make our GPS technology more accurate, but we're not quite there yet. Just three satellites have been launched thus far, and only one of them is ...

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 ...

Long-time iPhone and CarPlay users certainly know that the experience with navigation apps isn’t always the most flawless. One of the most common problems they come across concerns the GPS connection.