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Using Your Common Sense in Conjunction With Auto GPS Systems

By Muna wa Wanjiru

Auto gps systems. You might be asking what these are. To be more exact what is an auto gps system? The answer is both simple and complex. So let's start from the beginning. The letters gps stands for global positioning satellites. What this means is that with the help of satellites you can find any person, any place or even any street in the world.

These global positioning satellites or gps as we will be calling them use the coordinates you give them as well as the information from the satellites to show you certain positions. The auto gps systems use the satellites to help you find your way while you are traveling in the car. There are many different types of gps systems you can use for vehicles but they all operate on the same principles.

The first item you will find with these auto gps systems is the touch screen interface monitor. The easy to understand voice prompts will help to reinforce the directions you see on your gps monitor. In most of the auto gps systems you will have a section of the city map displayed clearly. You will see your position on the map clearly. The route you need to take will also be highlighted.

The auto gps systems will use the information about the city to show you the best (or shortest) routes to take. You will see where the railways crossing intersect the city roads. This will of course allow you to understand that if you are approaching any of these intersections your travel time may become changed or compromised.

To help you navigate the city street during the times when you are driving there is an electronic voice which will provide you with easy to understand yet simple directions. You will have the option of changing this voice from female to male as you desire. You should however be aware that due to electronic malfunctioning, the auto gps systems can and will fail.

There have been instances reported of people who use these systems getting lost or misdirected. There are also times when the auto gps systems will cause drivers to arrive at their destination hours later than usual. These occurrences however are relatively rare. You can avoid most of these such mishaps if you use your common sense in conjunction with the gps street maps.

The advances in technology are helping to devise better ways to navigate through the city streets. You will find that these auto gps systems will one day replace the need for bulky city and country maps altogether.

About The Author

Muna wa Wanjiru is a Web Administrator and Has Been Researching and Reporting on GPS for Years. For More Information on Auto GPS Systems, Visit His Site at Auto GPS Systems

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Apparently this is going to be yet another component of MS' push for .Net services with hooks into other MSN services. MapPoint is XML-based, which makes it interesting in other ways, and there it launches with a phone-based direction service. The articles notes that this is another step towards location-based services. "For example, you might someday be able to click on a Windows Messenger buddy's name and retrieve a map showing the location of his or her home."

Good or bad? You make the call. I like parts of this, but I'm incredibly wary of .Net.

Qualcomm's Vision of the Wireless Future "When he finished, there were 20 brand-new, CDMA-based mobile handsets and devices arrayed on the table, the high-tech souvenirs of Belk's most recent trip to Hong Kong and Japan.... 'These are not PowerPoint slides,' Belk said. 'These are real devices that are already shipping in volume in Asia.' " at Business 2.0]

And there's the rub. When I do my presentations, that's all I have - pictures of prototypes or of devices not available in the U.S. Europe and Asia really are 18 months ahead of us in this area.

"Beale also discussed Qualcomm's gpsOne location technology.... It also opens the door for many new location-based services, such as traffic information and local weather forecasts. On Japan KDDI's network, there are already more than 20 location-based services available -- all of which are relatively inexpensive, costing less than $5 per month."

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Not to beat a dead horse, but the ebook industry is even younger than PCs, and PDAs have really only come into their own during the last few years. So don't count any of these technologies out just yet.

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Good or bad? You make the call. I like parts of this, but I'm incredibly wary of .Net.