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Magellan Consumer GPS; Navteq Map Reporter; Maps4me.de: Free OpenStreetMap for Magellan systems; Openstreetmap.org: OSM Map on Magellan — details on Magellan map making. Magellan GPS Map Updates Archived 2021-04-16 at the Wayback Machine; Magellan Roadmate Update Archived 2021-04-16 at the Wayback Machine
Bradford Parkinson (born February 16, 1935) is an American engineer and inventor, retired United States Air Force Colonel and Emeritus Professor at Stanford University.He is best known as the lead architect, advocate and developer, with early contributions from Ivan Getting and Roger Easton, of the Air Force NAVSTAR program, better known as Global Positioning System.
2007: Toyota introduced Map on Demand, a technology for distributing map updates to car navigation systems, developed as the first of its kind in the world 2008: World's first navigation system-linked brake assist function and Navigation system linked to Adaptive Variable Suspension System (NAVI/AI-AVS) on Toyota Crown
GNS 430 was an integrated avionics system that served as both GPS navigation receiver and communications transceiver. [20] StreetPilot was Garmin’s first portable navigation system for cars. [19] [21] Founders Gary Burrell and Min Kao. By 1999, sales had reached $232.6 million [17] with a profit of $64 million. Garmin reported a 2006 total ...
Roger Lee Easton Sr. (April 30, 1921 – May 8, 2014) was an American physicist and state representative [1] who was the principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System, along with Ivan A. Getting and Bradford Parkinson.
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, [2] is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta 31. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver anywhere on or near the ...
Gladys Mae West (née Brown; born October 27, 1930 [1]) is an American mathematician.She is known for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, and her work on the development of satellite geodesy models, that were later incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS). [2]
Vehicle OBD tracking systems make use of OBD GPS trackers that plug into the onboard diagnostic (OBD) port of light, medium, or heavy-duty vehicle. A cellular OBD GPS tracker directly communicates with the cell tower for sending the location and other vehicle performance data to the server over the cellular wireless network.