It may be helpful to find coordinates on Google Maps if you want to share your exact location. Here's how to do it on your ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...

No, datum in this case it is not the singular form of data; it is the geodetic term for the measurement of the curvature surface of the earth with a specific center point. It is the basis for making ...

The old standards like the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83) for horizontal positioning and the North American Vertical ...

Every 19 years, the Global Positioning System resets a measure of time built into its program. The latest rollover is Saturday and NPR's Scott Simon asks cybersecurity expert Frank Cilluffo about it.

The Global Positioning System, or GPS, is pretty much indispensable these days. Phones, tablets, self-driving cars, and drones depend on a network of geostationary satellites high above the earth’s ...

A joint American Petroleum Institute-Association of Oil Pipe Lines team is working to develop standard global positioning system coordinate submittal guidelines in an effort to reduce potential errors ...

One expert says the federal government needs to develop a secondary system to avoid a disaster in the event the GPS system ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. New cutting-edge science into how lightning affects Earth’s ...