Do you have a GPS?

| Monday, October 10, 2011
By Maria A. Carey


It's always been an issue for us on who gets lost often between my husband and me. I believe we're nearly the same. We're spontaneous and when we fill we wanted to go anywhere, we just fill the car with stuff and zoom off. Pinpointing the exact location of the office of our client or a particular place in the city where we haven't been to is not quite easy.Once, we got lost in a big city and ended up in a part of town that was dangerous. Because of that incident, immediately the day after, we acquired a GPS system. My husband and I do not want it to ever happen for the second time.

The American Defense Department pioneered this system, GPS or Global Positioning System, and operated with twenty four satellites orbiting the atmosphere. There are almost thirty satellites as to date, that are active in precise location determination, employed in the areas of maritime, aviation, land surveys, and others.

The satellite navigation system was built up basing from the technology already applied by the US Defense Departments - Air Force and Navy in 1973.According to The National Research Council's Committee on the Future of the Global Positioning System, originally, the GPS technology was designed mainly to provide precise radio navigation capability to the U.S. military. The sum of people using the GPS system has risen radically since the development of its technology servicing more private citizens than state-service people. The technology of GPS was unveiled at the time of the Gulf War in 1991 and was highly commended.

The system has aided civilians at these times - giving them protection, providing them work, aiding them in their performance and the likes.The technology is leaping forward so fast that it is predicted in a few years these systems will be the size of a credit card - so no excuse for getting lost!

GPS systems also have important functions in aiding rescues, public transportations, and aerial flight procedures. Earthquakes and movements in the tectonic plates have also been the subject of the GPS monitoring.

Besides mapping roads, tracking forest fires, and honing airline flight plans, one of the greatest advantages of civilian use is in the car.Many companies are manufacturing cars equipped with a GPS system, but if you don't have one in your car, you can purchase a system and install it yourself.

This is just a small indication of a larger possibility, in view of the fact that GPS devices in use to date is assessed to have exceeded two billion dollars in the whole world and still on the rise. Maybe ten years from now, it could even exceed thirty billion dollars.

Since we started using this, we did not have to worry anymore when we are on the road because there is something to guide us if we're going to a client's office and we'd be on time. If we get lost, we'll just use the GPS to maneuver us back to the right direction. If we do get into an accident, it is there to help locate us. Sure, sometimes we just go on spontaneous trips on the road. We simply jump in the car and whisk away. If we wanted to stop, we'd stop anywhere and it's fine with us. We are confident though that we have our GPS to guide us back if ever we do get lost.




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