GPS users need their maps, and there’s no better supplier of free maps these days than Google. Google has given the world a more detailed face with their Google Earth and Map applications by supplying reasonably current, high quality satellite imagery for everybody to use for free. A lot of the people using GPS devices [...]

A lot of devices with the Windows Mobile operating system are coming out GPS enabled as well. A lot of times they don’t even come with the software to handle the GPS part of things. I recently purchased some GPS software for my Windows Mobile OS based device and believe that this is some of [...]

UPDATE: This article is dated! There is now Magellan GPS Software for the iPhone and it actually looks pretty good! Finally something good from Magellan, but it’s not GPS hardware. There’s been a lot of rumors going around that “turn by turn” navigational software will become available for the iPhone very soon – but so [...]

One thing I always want to do is plan a trip before I go out on it if there’s some danger of getting lost. If I’m going to visit a couple of islands with a boat, trek out into the wild Sierra Madre or even visit a town that has no road data available there’s [...]

Geotagging is a fairly-new, automatic and easy way to keep your digital photos organized. With a GPS enabled camera you can include GPS location information within the Exif data in your pictures. The problem however is that the cameras that have this functionality built in are still very expensive. Pictured on the right is Nikon’s [...]

Google Maps is a great utility to help you find your way. If you don’t have a navigational GPS with all the maps and waypoints to help you out you can still search for a location on Google Maps and add it as a waypoint to your GPS unit. When you’ve found your destination just [...]