One US insurer is offering discounts to drivers who share their GPS data with the company.
Powerful filters let you pinpoint images by date, smiles, favourites, GPS data and more.
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In the meantime, the GPS data Waze collected from users was creating something else: maps.
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That's according to traffic data firm Inrix, which measures speeds using GPS data from commercial vehicles.
However, many competing programs using GPS data potentially could, even if the insurance companies promise not to use it.
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Each driver is equipped with an iPhone that tracks the journey, using GPS data points to calculate the fare.
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By combining these pictures with GPS data the company is able to offer street-level perspectives of the world around us.
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Big Data includes that as well as Twitter feeds, Facebook (FB) posts, GPS data, road sensor signals, genomic data, and videos.
The researchers used GPS data from more than 33, 000 Beijing taxicabs.
The GPS data allowed a map to be made of the routes taken and the heart-rate measurements provided an estimate of the amount of energy expended during their travels.
Among these streams of info is access to a chronological list of user activities, GPS data, and the amount of NikeFuel earned both in total and on an individual activity basis.
By supplementing the GPS data with accelerometers and gyroscopes, researchers can use direction changes and speed to fill in the blanks, improving accuracy from a crude-at-best 49 feet to between 3 and 7 feet.
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Point out historical sites based on gps data?
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As you look around, the output from the camera appears on the heads-up display augmented with labels showing the location and distance of the nearby train stations based on the compass and GPS data from the goggles.
Once the GPS data is linked to the pictures and prepared by a program on the computer, your trip can be shown as points on a map or aerial photo, with each point linking to a picture.
Starting this month, Toshiba UK will include a standard desktop tile linking to the National Rail Enquiries journey planner on all its Windows 8 devices, and the next step for Darwin is to incorporate GPS data as it becomes more available.
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The laptop uses the GPS data to maintain a 3D model which keeps the vehicle correctly positioned in the virtual world, and much "like a novel, " the story unfolds as different turns (ahem) take place based on the decisions players make.
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The Court of Appeals ruled that the GPS data should have been excluded because the government had not obtained a valid warrant nor did it provide any justification for its failure to get one (or extend the one that they had properly obtained).
Of course, Ford also has other ideas for the technology like a car which automatically checks in to Foursquare using the GPS data from the car or an app which your vocal musings about certain locations on the road to be recorded and tagged to that location on an online map.
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He notes the irony of using technology, from GPS location data to mobile social-sharing, to report on a uniquely high-tech form of warfare.
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This allows the phone to do a quick shorthand calculation to provide GPS satellite data based on nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell tower data, instead of phoning home ET-style.
With smart pavement and GPS providing data to on-board computers in vehicles, traffic could be programmed to move in elegant swoops following safety algorithms that guarantee the safety of people, cyclists and green spaces.
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Super Cruise is designed to ease the driver's workload on the freeway, in both bumper-to-bumper traffic and on long road trips by relying on a fusion of radar, ultrasonic sensors, cameras and GPS map data.
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The key to delivering semi-autonomous capability will be the integration of lane- centering technology that relies on forward-looking cameras to detect lane markings and GPS map data to detect curves and other road characteristics, said John Capp, General Motors director of Global Active Safety Electronics and Innovation.
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Qualcomm's Gobi2000 technology includes integrated GPS, increased data-transfer rates and more global connectivity options.
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But it drew fire last year when it was revealed that one of the parties interested in the GPS-motion data was Dutch law enforcement, so it could figure out the best place to set up speed traps.
As some members of the Supreme Court recognized last year when they considered the use of only a single stream of data -- GPS location -- creating a life stream of data points paints a mosaic picture of a person's actions and habits.
For those not in the know, this is pretty much what it sounds like: basically adding GPS-based location data to digital photos so you know exactly where any particular picture was taken.
"Our biggest challenges were developing an algorithm which optimally combines the data from GPS and the other sensors, and overcoming the issues of using such low-cost sensors in a system without any absolute location reference, " said Smithson.
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