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 [...]

Traveling to all those foreign places that you want to visit is easy now that you have your GPS – but how are you going to make the most of your trip? With Lonely Planet’s guidebooks and your GPS you’ll be sure to make the most of your journey and see all the things you [...]

More and more tourism outfits are getting on the GPS technology bandwagon and renting ‘GPS Tours’ and I’m not convinced that it’s really worth it for the consumer to go out and rent one of these devices. One example of this type of service is the GyPSy Okanagan Wine Tour in British Columbia, Canada. You [...]

There’s a few places on the internet that offer FREE (as in beer) user generated maps for Garmin GPS owners. Of course nothing replaces a comprehensive map database but if you’re planning on traveling to foreign lands check out these maps to see if they’ll get you around to where you want to go – [...]

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 [...]

There are so many different types of GPS devices on the market today – all with great price tags and they all do some pretty awesome things. I’ve picked the Garmin iQue 3600 PDA with built in GPS, the HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion and the Garmin eTrex Venture HC Handheld GPS to compare. Here [...]