Gps or Global Positioning Systems is a term that most ordinarily conjures up images of car pilotage systems, space-age satellite technology, and interactive maps for outdoors-types and sportsmen. But the reality is that there are far more applications of Global Positioning Systems beyond Gps car tracking or map pilotage that daily people like us can benefit from. All it takes is a bit of creativity, and some trial and error. Here are a few of the many possibilities that can benefit you right now in your busy and hectic life.
1. Know where your children are using services from clubs like uLocate Communications.
2. Keep track of elderly members of your family, so that they don't wander off alone.
3. Plan a road trip nearby provocative points of interests, landmarks, campsites, diners, etc, and hear fewer "Are we there yets?"- and of course get the most out of that high-priced gas.
4. Get accident road side assistance at a touch of a button from your vehicle, so you can get help exactly where and when you need it.
5. Keep a optical journal and bookmark range of your popular hot spots, sceneries, and points of interests, that may not be listed in any trip guide (You can generate your own mini trip guides and memories).
6. Find lost pets actually using collars with built-in Gps, better than running nearby in your pajamas hollering like a maniac.
7. Feel safer with cellular phone 911 calls, so accident personnel can pinpoint your location once you make an accident call. Please duplicate check your carrier service to see that it has Gps features and get a primer on how it works if possible.
8. Get to your interview, or any important time sensitive destination or engagement, faster by seeing shortcuts and strict directions.
9. Find a good Italian bistro near your movie theatre on the fly.
10. Track your luggage, laptops, and anything of significance while traveling.
11. Track and find family, friends in a crowded concert, graduation, or any communal gathering.
12. When going on a vacation, feel free to separate from group for a while to venture on your own based on your own interests and find them later on with your Gps enabled device- even in an unfamiliar place.
Our potential to use Gps so far is microscopic by the relatively poor association to the satellite feeds when we are indoors in buildings, homes, or behind anything that could obstruct the Gps connection. Any way with the venture and amelioration in a new satellite network called Galileo which should be completed in the near future, these problems should be eliminated drastically. Despite these problems, Gps still offers a world of benefits as mentioned earlier, and with any technology, it will only get better.
In addition to more practical usage applications, Gps will make a great educational and fun gift for your loved one's and friends as well. Reconsider just two of the many creative and educational uses of Gps:
1. Stay physically active and fit by playing RayGun! A locational based cell phone game based on Gps technology.
2. Become more cultured, make global friends, and learn about the world playing GeoCache, a global Gps based treasure hunt.
With many affordable feature-rich models to satisfy anyone's preferences and budgets, now is as good a time as any to learn more about Gps technologies, which are actually to Become more assimilated into the mainstream within the decade. One day we will take these things for granted just like we do now for the internet and cell phones. The key is to dive in, without paralyzing yourself with the overwhelming array of choices in the Gps market, and enjoying some truly overwhelming technology.
