It was the first time GPS mishaps got a mainstream treatment – the 2007 episode of The Office in which Michael Scott thought he was following the correct GPS directions but instead drove into a ...

Should north be at the top of your paper map or GPS satnav device for the best guidance? Satnav and mapping expert Peter (World Mapman) Davis looks into the phenomenon in the third part of our satnav ...

Low-tech, old-school cartographers stick to paper maps because of their reliability and simplicity, while the geeky brainiac types spend their time behind the LCD screens of high-tech GPS ...

AUSTIN, Texas—Because GPS can be spoofed or jammed in combat, one geospatial intelligence company developed a drone-navigation system based on 3D maps. Peter Wilczynski, Maxar’s chief ...

Today, it updated its mobile maps to pinpoint your locations by triangulating between cell towers (or if you have GPS on your phone, it uses that, but only 15 percent of phones sold this year even ...