If your device comes with GPS support and you have a Navigation Application on your PC (such as Microsoft Autoroute), you can use your device as a GPS receiver for the application. Plus, it's ...

By combining data from four satellites at once, a GPS receiver can pinpoint its position on the globe through a process called trilateration. Here’s how it works.

It’s not a foolproof system: Cybercriminals use a tactic called GPS spoofing, which sends inaccurate data to GPS receivers in order to redirect or disrupt a navigation system.

The usual way of adding GPS capabilities to a project is grabbing an off-the-shelf GPS module, plugging it into a UART, and reading the stream of NMEA sentences coming out of a serial port. Dependi… ...

[superlopez] sent in this detailed article (mirrored here and here) which describes how to build a GPS and GLONASS (the Russian version of GPS) receiver. The resulting device is gigantic compared t… ...

Does anyone know of the maximum elevation a GPS receiver can generally be used (need longitude, latitude and height data )? Basically I want to use a GPS in an amateur satellite, for establishing ...

To teach students how to read and interpret a topographic map, he pairs up the maps with geocaching, an activity in which students use GPS receivers to locate hidden points.