Following is a submission to our “$100 for 300 Well-Chosen Surveyor Words” contest. To submit your own surveyor’s story, send 300 (or more) words to [email protected]. By Jay Satalich, P.L.S. At ...

If you are using GPS from the beginning of the journey, you can leave a bicycle rut on the map with quite high accuracy. If there is no GPS log, it will take a bit of trouble, but by drawing a line on ...

Interactive KML – Google has announced a new tool to help with learning KML. They have an interactive KML sampler which lets you simultaneously view samples of KML with the Earth API plugin. Of course ...

I'm trying to find some software that would let me edit tracks that are output from my GPS. Basically, all I want to do is trim out the stuff I don't want. Since the GPS tracks from the moment it's on ...

Editor’s Note: The following review is adapted from Five Star Apps: The Best iPhone and iPad Apps for Work and Play by Glenn Fleishman. (2010, Pearson Education and Peachpit Press). If you hike, bike, ...