GPS navigation uses the same principle ... The sailors of old typically used flat maps to find their position, so three reference points would suffice. Since GPS devices move in three dimensions ...

Google Maps does a lot more than just get you where you're going. Now's a good time to rediscover its most popular features and helpful hidden gems.

Take Antwerp’s 1565 city map by Virgilius Bononiensis ... Unlike today’s turn-by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS might have been all about survival: avoiding bandit-prone roads, timing ...

Signals from the global navigation satellite system can be jammed and spoofed, so a Google spinout is working on an alternative positioning and navigation system that uses the Earth’s magnetic field.

Old GPS units were good at the time, but smartphone navigation is leaps and bounds ahead of what we used to have in terms of ...

Google shares some data on Google Maps' adoption as part of its 20th anniversary; Google Maps is the number one mobile navigation app ...

If I asked you to guess the most popular navigation app you'd probably say ... which is generically labelled 'GPS Maps'. This has 1.5 million downloads. Google Maps and Waze weren't the only ...

HERE WeGo has recently been updated with another must-have feature; Google Maps and Waze already have similar capabilities ...

Anello Photonics' SiPhOG technology will enable US Navy hypersonic vehicles to navigate accurately even in GPS-denied ...