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The I-580 freeway collapse in Oakland totally takes out a freeway that might get routed in your GPS Navigation device. This should not be a problem for the people who get traffic updates downloaded to your gps navigation systems, [...]

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Making the right choice of software ensures that you will use it often. GisUser have done an extensive review on several software titles and the article can be found here. This is a review of 5 leading sofware solutions for your PDA, Smartphone or Windows Mobile Device. The software titles are:

CoPilot Live 6 from [...]

isiNav is a simple navigation system for pedestrians. The device has got an in-built GPS receiver, a button to mark the current location of the user and a LED display unit to show the directions to the marked location. Once the user has pressed the button, the device shows always the direction to the marked [...]

GPS Marine Chartplotters are all easy to use and are great on water, most of these systems come with a standard built in basemaps and also accept offshore marine cartography. Here is the top ten selling chartplotters:

Garmin GPSMap 76
Garmin GPSMap 276C
HumminBird RF 25 Smartcast
Garmin GPSMap 440S
Garmin GPSMap 520S
Garmin GPSMap 276C
Standard CP175C
Garmin GPSMAP 172C
HumminBird 947C [...]

A clothes designer from Germany recently introduced io-Jacket during Cebit last month. It is a hi-tech jacket that has a built in Mp3 player, cell phone and GPS. The GPS system uses GPSoverIP which uses the cell phone connection to store location data, which means that it will still be able to [...]

A study by the Swedish Defence Research Agency has found that many intel processors found in our PC’s interfere with the frequecy signals that GPS Navigation sytems use. What this basically means is that using a computer in a car, plane, boat, or anywhere a GPS system is used, can make the GPS device to [...]

LG have just released 3 new gps navigation systems for the US. The LN730, LN735 and LN740 are slated to start appearing in retail stores around the first half of May. The three units feature turn-by-turn voice guidance, touchscreen displays, SiRF Star III GPS receivers, maps covering the United States and Canada, and [...]

What is the best gps car navigation system under $300? Which models do you suggest? …
Most of these systems provide features like turn-by-turn routing, touchscreen, 2D or 3D map viewing modes and many more. Most of these systems will provide more than enough functionality for a large percentage of buyers of car navigation systems. We [...]

Tomtom have announced the release of updated maps for their whole product line. The catch — you have to pay for the new maps.
Article and pictures from Gpsmagazine.com

The maps are available via TomTom’s Map Shop.
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PriceGrabber.com released a study that looked at the data that it has which includes more than 24 million unique visitors, 11,000 merchants and vendors, plus more than 300 networks of sites.
They concluded that the prices of gps navigation systems have dropped by over 15 percent year-over-year in February 2007 compared to the same [...]