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GPS on Your PDA

By ian Williamson

Did you know that in civilian aviation, relative improvements are constantly made in what you could call pilot's toys? For example, there are already sectional charts made available on PDA GPS. Sectional charts are like aviation maps. Pilots use these maps in flight planning and aeronautical navigation. Additionally there are many other data's useful for safe airplane travel.

A PDA may stand for a Personal Digital Assistant. This is a small electronic device which can include some functionality of computers. GPS is the only fully functioning satellite navigation system.

PDA GPS tools and other programs all contributed to effectively make flying a lot safer and simpler, and therefore, more enjoyable for everyone involved in flight.

There are brand new advanced programs full of novelties that activate when they are loaded along with some database. This proved to be a very useful tool for tracking civilian data that are essential for routine surveillance gathering.

Since many pilots as a rule have no problem in being able to afford brand new gadgets, this relatively new PDA GPS industry found itself being flooded with many new players. One of their primary goals is to secure passengers flight luggage.

Most drivers specifically those who drove trucks and even railroad conductors utilized this new equipment. Navy Pilots also use them. Come to think of it even guided missile bombers may have used them!

Other PDA GPS devices had unique designs; for instance a weather device that transmits text information to the World Wide Web so that you can search the internet for specifications. This PDA GPS tool is certainly worthy to have around.

There is also an item, which can be used on some handheld GPS devices or PDA GPS that has capabilities for rough terrain CAD and laptop. Aside from aviation purposes, it is also handy in civil engineering and forestry. It can also be used for routing and scheduling in aviation and even for activities like hiking, fishing and diving. It can as well be helpful in the trucking business. The tool has NOAA (National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration) features for weather and works with software produced by ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute). Versatile is the most appropriate description for this unit. This PDA GPS unit is by miles the best all-purpose unit of all.

Another PDA GPS tool gives out real-time data important for flight plans. Real time data includes text on Airport forecasts and observations, wind forecasts and Area forecasts providing real-time meteorological information broadcasts for aviation purposes. It provides images and text of Pilot report and status of military training airspace that is forbidden or restricted, and position of other planes in the air trough the instrument flight plan. It also produces graphical images of icing and turbulence forecasts, and FAA advisories and warnings among others.

This indicates clearly that the software development companies that work with PDA GPS applications strive to provide identical data for the convenience and uniformity of all clients who want to use the device. A lot of these PDA GPS innovations are already being offered to businesses, from small and medium to the large ones.

The last few years Global Positioning Systems have been offered to millions of consumers all over the world. Some of these GPS devices combined in PDAs, others as stand alone devices. Making route planning for a lot of people easier than it has ever been before

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Write Here, Write Now: And you thought you were overloaded with information now, just wait. Hewlett Packard is working on a technology to let folks print messages in mid-air based on their location incorporating GPS technology. I find this stuff fascinating, even if no one seems to have thought of a good use for it yet. The first sentence of the article is right, though: "The kids are going to love this." in New Scientist via RCPL's Liblog]

When the ALA summer conference was in San Francisco in 1997, the SF Museum of Modern Art had a fascinating exhibit called Icons: Magnets of Meaning. I spent hours browsing through it, but one of the pieces that has always stuck in my mind was called @: Marking the Electrosphere . It talked about the meaning of that one little symbol. How it can define, place, and root you in the world, but at the same time let you be found anywhere. Integrated, widespread use of GPS is going to take this to a whole new level.

Global Positioning Systems offer everything from hole overviews to Internet access "Shortgrass Technologies' Internet-based sports information system and financial ticker enables golfers to check college football scores on a Saturday afternoon or the price of stocks any weekday. Global positioning systems can track golf cars no matter where they are on the course, thus discovering bottlenecks and slower play. Golfers can order beverages and food en route to the turn, so golf clubs can offer more than a quick hot dog - a higher priced chicken sandwich, for instance...."

I always thought that GPS would go mainstream in automobiles first, and in a way I suppose it has, but maybe golfers will lead the real charge. I could have used a portable, library-centered GPS system myself to navigate the Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Library when I was there last fall!

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