Perhaps you’re occasionally checking your smartphone’s built-in mapping software while driving to a remote trout stream, or using Google Earth on a home computer to scout out new hunting and fishing ...

Even if most people don’t understand how GPS works, we rely on it constantly and have an appreciation for the role it plays in our lives. Global positioning makes mapping and direction programs like ...

or dog collar to keep track of whereabouts afield. Regardless of how you enjoy the outdoors, like most hunters and anglers these days, you’ve probably tapped into the Global Positioning System in one ...

Ever wonder how that GPS chip in your cell phone or personal navigation device or some other gizmo used by your field workers actually knows how to find the orbiting satellites and grab their ...

Self-driving cars need to know exactly where on the road they are located at all times. A new invention could revolutionize the development of driverless vehicles—and give us more accurate GPS on our ...

The Roanoke Times published an article on July 15 headlined "Indoor guidance systems for phones go beyond GPS." The article contained serious errors in its description of how GPS works. The article ...