Useful Links:

Mobile Computing and GPS

Links last checked 11th August 2000.

This is not intended to be a definitive set of links on any of the topics covered. Instead, we have included pointers to sites that we have found useful or just interesting, and have tried to include at least one site with a good collection of links for each topic. Commercial sites are limited to manufacurers whose equipment we have used and other sites offering particularly useful resources.

Contents:

• Mobile Computing
• Hand-held Computers
• PalmPilot
• Newton
• WindowsCE
• GPS

Mobile computing

• Marc Weiser's Ubiquitous Computing page. "Where virtual reality puts people inside a computer-generated world, ubiquitous computing forces the computer to live out here in the world with people." Includes pointers to early Xerox Parc work on ubiquitous computing.
• ACM SIGMOBILE, Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing and Communications.
• The Olivetti Active Badge system. "...a means of locating individuals within a building by determining the location of their Active Badge."
• Mobile and Wireless Computing index at Stanford. Includes an extensive collection of links to projects, conferences, journals, etc. Rather than trying to maintain up-to-date lists ourselves, we just point you at this one!
• Journals and magazines
  • Pen Computing Magazine

Hand-held computers

PalmPilot

• 3Com Palm Computing. Information from the makers of the PalmPilot.
• Calvin's Pilot FAQ. THE Pilot FAQ, plus many links to other Pilot sites.
• Hardware Stuff. Photographs and descriptions of the Pilot's internals.
• Pilot Software Development. Articles, information and development tools.
• Palm Gear HQ. Up-to-date news, software, accessories, etc.
• The PilotZone (now TUCOWS Palm software): a source for PalmPilot software.

Newton

• Clay Irving's Newton Reference.An extensive list of links to software, accessories, etc.
• Steve Weyer's Newton releases page. Includes Newt application development environment and Newt's Cape web browser.
• The Newton Underground
• See also: GPS software for handheld computers, below.

WindowsCE

• See also: GPS software for handheld computers, below.

GPS

• General: introductions, explanations and links:
• Sam Wormley's GPS Resources.
• Peter Dana's GPS Overview.
• Peter Bennett's collection of FAQs, GPS, NMEA and marine related files.
• US Navy, China Lake, CA. GPS Resource Page.
• Satellite predictors:
• US Navy, China Lake, CA.
• Trimble Navigation Limited.
• SatTrack satellite tracking software for UNIX platforms (not limited to GPS & GLONASS).
• Interesting projects:
• Sandiway Fong's electronic bicycle navigation project using an Apple Newton and Garmin GPS30.
• Processing GPS data:
• Sam Storm van Leeuwen's raw data pages, a useful resource for anyone interested in processing raw GPS data.
• Institute of Applied Geodesy, Leipzig. GIBS (GPS-Informations und Beobachtungssystem), GPS Information and Observation System. A source of current GPS information - system status, RINEX observation and navigation files, precise orbital data, etc from european observatories. European Regional IGS Data Centre
• Waypoint Consulting Inc. Suppliers of post-processing software. Pages include useful background information and reports on experiments with Canadian Marconi Allstar and other OEM receiver cards.
• The RINEX format: Current Status, Future Developments, 1990 background paper on RINEX by Gurtner and Mader.
• RINEX: The Receiver Independent Exchange Format Version 2, the current RINEX standard format.
• The National Geodetic Survey Standard GPS Format SP3, description of SP3 format for GPS satellite orbit data.
• Manufacturers and suppliers:
• Trimble Navigation Limited:
• BAE Systems Canada, Inc. (formerly Canadian Marconi Company). OEM receiver boards: ALLSTAR, RT*STAR and SUPERSTAR.
• Navtech Seminars and GPS Supply. Extensive collection of GPS related literature and hardware, including Canadian Marconi GPS receivers and CSI DGPS beacon receivers.
• The Garmin Web Site
• CSI: Differential GPS beacon receivers, including the SBX-2 OEM card.
• GPS software for handheld computers:
• FieldWorker, field data recording on the Newton. See also, our review in Internet Archaeology issue 3.
• TeleType GPS moving map software for Newton and WinCE hand-helds.
• MapPad digital map and vehicle navigation system for the Apple Newton.
• Other interesting sites:
• UNAVCO, Boulder, Colorado University NAVSTAR Consortium (UNAVCO)
• GPS World magazine Products & Services.
• European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt. Near Earth Navigation and Geodesy Section GPS Pages
• US Coastguard Navigation Centre
• On-line resources for Land Surveying and Geomatics
• US National Observatory Time Service Department master clock, the official source of time in the USA.
• DCI differential GPS service. Includes world-wide coverage maps for beacon transmitters

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