Tag: gps
Weak GPS signal
In our way from Berlin to Prague the GPS signal was lost. Strangely we entered a sort of unknown zone where we the Garmin e-Trex GPS devise couldn’t conne...
FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 4)
OSM in Action. During the six years of history, the OSM project has been able to grow thanks to the volunteer work of an active community of amateur mappers and...
FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 1)
On January 12 2010, after the catastrophic earthquake (magnitude 7.0 Mw) near Port au Prince that triggered a humanitarian crisis, hundreds of volunteers distri...
The Circuit of Culture of the GPS Personal Navigation Device (Part 2)
III. A Complex Techno-militar-scientific-media System (production) After the World Wars of the 20th century and during the Cold Ward, the United States of Ameri...
The Circuit of Culture of the GPS Personal Navigation Device (Part 1)
The first time I heard about GPS enabled navigation devices was during the Persian Gulf War when television reporters highlighted the use of GPS technology by t...