Quantum Navigation via Magnetic fields.

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Even when the equipment was mounted inside a plane, where interference is much worse, it outperformed existing systems by at least 11x. This is the first time quantum technology has been shown to outperform existing tech in a real-world commercial or military application, a milestone referred to as achieving “quantum advantage."
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Not only for the military !

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/australia-firm-gps-less-navigation-system

What's a fun and interesting way to map out your walking or running route?

Try https://onthegomap.com/#/create

Traffic Sucks

I backed out of the driveway at 7:29am. At that time the GPS app (Waze) was already telling me I was going to be late to work. My ETA was 9:03. The app detoured me off of my normal route less than half a mile from my house…

…and it was all downhill from there.

At about 8:50 I still had 10 miles to go and Waze started recalculating. My ETA started going up… fast. There was an accident on route 128 South (that’s route 95 for all of you non-locals) right at the junction with the Mass Pike (route 90, for all of you non-locals). I pulled into a parking spot at work at 9:30.

Nine. Fucking. Thirty.

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54458364315/in/datetaken/

So tell me, how’s your fucking Thursday morning treating you? Nothing like a two hour drive as your democracy is collapsing to make you feel good about the state of the world, know what I mean?

Here’s a cat. Enjoy.

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54458359830/in/datetaken/

starting to learn #friction a motion graphics package.
So far all the "bugs" I've found have been operator errors and misunderstandings.

I have a #svg graphic of a bicycle I found on #openclipart following a path that was made from a #gps
track off an #android phone using #viking to view a #OSM map and route and turned into a svg path in #gimp & #inkscape.

Yet to do;
turn the png frames into the video using #shotcut and some music and posted to a nextcloud server.
I #FLOSS #GNU

#Privacy on the Map: How States Are Fighting Location #Surveillance
#geolocation #tracking #gps

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/privacy-map-how-states-are-fighting-location-surveillance

"GNSS on the moon: Lunar PNT era begins" by GPS World - #NASA experiment on commercial Blue Ghost lunar lander verified sensitive #GNSS receivers can use weak radio signals from far-away Earth orbit for positioning, navigation & timing #PNT in lunar orbit and on the surface. https://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-on-the-moon-lunar-pnt-era-begins/ #GPS #Galileo #Moon

Grmbl....
Je crois que je ne suis pas prêt de racheter de nouvelles cartes sur komoot.
Dommage, c'était une super appli de decouverte et planification d'itinéraires
https://weelz.ouest-france.fr/rachat-de-komoot-par-bending-spoons-un-changement-de-direction-qui-sent-la-sortie-de-route/
#velo #rando #gps

New! Installing G-Mouse GPS Receiver And Reading GPS Data On A Raspberry PI

The G-Mouse GPS receiver has a USB interface, a 2 meter long cable, and the GPS receiver itself is magnetic and so can attach to lots of different surfaces.

In this article we'll look at what happens when you plug in the GPS receiver, and then look at a couple of packages you can use to verify that the GPS receiver is working correctly.

https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/installing-g-mouse-gps-receiver-and-reading-gps-data-raspberry-pi

Introducing #BPS, the #GPS #alternative for those who love empty booths and overpriced oscilloscopes! #Jeff #Geerling takes us on a thrilling #adventure of finding #tech that even your GPS can't locate —because, let's face it, no one else cares!
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/bps-gps-alternative-nobodys-heard #oscilloscopes #HackerNews #ngated

BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/bps-gps-alternative-nobodys-heard

Schade #heise. Wieder mal ein Downer für mich: Ein für mich prinzipiell sehr interessanter Artikel zu Rasenrobotern, der mit keinem Wort erwähnt, ob man eines der Geräte auch ohne Verbindung zum Hersteller voll nutzen kann.

Starke Abhängigkeit zu einer App lässt mich vermuten, dass damit auch die #Cloud mitgemeint ist.

Dann hoffe ich, dass mein alter #Gardena möglichst lange noch durchhält. Der braucht weder Internet noch Cloud noch App für seine Funktion.

"Top 10: Der beste #Mähroboter ohne #Begrenzungskabel mit #Kamera, #GPS oder #Lidar"
https://www.heise.de/bestenlisten/testsieger/top-10-der-beste-maehroboter-ohne-begrenzungskabel-mit-kamera-gps-oder-lidar/gb7xhbg

Nebenbei: der flexible Begrenzungsdraht scheint mir immer noch deutlich praktischer zu sein als die teuren High-Tech-Alternativen: einfach zu installieren, einfach zu korrigieren/finetunen, lästig aber akzeptabel bei der Fehlersuche bei Kabelbruch.

YMMV.

I've published the third article of the series "Maps with Django"

You'll learn how to add images to your web map, and how to automatically locate markers by reading GPS information from images using Pillow

https://www.paulox.net/2025/04/11/maps-with-django-part-3-geodjango-pillow-and-gps/

#Django #Pillow #GeoDjango #Python #Maps #Exif #GPS

CC @pillow @django

GPS Broken? Try TV! https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/gps-broken-try-tv/ #gpshacks #Interest #News #ASTC #BPS #gps

GPS Broken? Try TV! - GPS and similar satellite navigation systems revolutionized how you keep track of ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/11/gps-broken-try-tv/ #gpshacks #interest #news #astc #bps #gps

Apple Maps läuft jetzt auch im Browser – sogar unter Android. Für manche vielleicht eine datenschutzfreundlichere Alternative zu Google Maps.

https://beta.maps.apple.com/

hm, ja wie jetzt?
#brack #daydeal #haustier #gps #tracker

Your Smartphone Can Measure Solar Storms!

Industry researchers found a way to provide better global coverage of what dynamics are occurring in the turbulent ionosphere - a region of Earth's atmosphere that is affected by the Sun's activity. They did this by tapping into GPS signals transmitted between smartphones and satellites.

Check out my latest #SpaceAustralia article here: https://www.spaceaustralia.com/news/your-smartphone-can-tell-us-about-solar-storms

Kast, Smith, Google Research Software Engineers

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