#nogps

Chinese celestial cartography, 1677

#throwbackthursday to a time before phone cameras were ubiquitous. To a time when we had #ozzfest which was arguably the greatest touring festival in the US! #blackdog #skankbanger #youareatruefriend @leezilla42 #tourlife #disposablecamera #freeballsonya #familyvalues #carnies #circus #funtimes #imisstour #rvlife #vanlife #skankwagon #wheredatittypaint #chickensandwich #nogps #tbt #purpleheadedyogurtslinger #slayer https://www.instagram.com/p/CFQSEA_JByV/?igshid=89v9dvwovgv7

It’s pretty easy get lost on the #BigIsland #noGPS #NoCellService 😆 (at Kailua-Kona, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChBR6EhpF3C/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#newphone #lg #nocam #nonet #nogps https://www.instagram.com/p/CG5f39vHMRO/?igshid=b9g51kdt3xww

The company has developed what it calls a Metropolitan Beacon System, which can find the location of devices like smartphones, drones, IoT products or even self-driving vehicles in indoor and urban areas where GPS or other satellite location signals cannot be reliably received. Anyone trying to use their phone to hail an Uber or Lyft in the Loop area of Chicago has likely experienced spotty GPS signals. The MBS infrastructure is essentially bolted onto cellular towers. The positioning system uses a cellular signal, not line-of-sight signal from satellites like GPS does. The system focuses on determining the “altitude” of a device, CEO and co-founder Ganesh Pattabiraman told TechCrunch. GPS can provide the horizontal position of a smartphone or IoT device. And Wi-Fi and Bluetooth can step in to provide that horizontal positioning indoors. NextNav says its MBS has added a vertical or “Z dimension” to the positioning system. This means the MBS can determine within less than three meters the floor level of a device in a  multi-story building. It’s the kind of system that can provide emergency services with critical information, such as the number of people located on a particular floor. It’s this specific use case that NextNav is betting on. Last year, the Federal Communication Commission issued new 911 emergency requirements for wireless carriers that mandates the ability to determine the vertical position of devices to help responders find people in multi-story buildings. Today, the MBS is in the Bay Area and Washington, D.C. The company plans to use this new injection of capital to expand its network to the 50 biggest markets in the U.S., in part to take advantage of the new FCC requirement. The technology has other applications. For instance, this so-called Z dimension could come in handy for locating drones. Last year, NASA said it will use NextNav’s MBS network as part of its City Environment for Range Testing of Autonomous Integrated Navigation facilities at its Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The round was led by funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group . Existing investors Columbia Capital, Future Fund, Telcom Ventures, funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, NEA and Oak Investment Partners also participated. XM Satellite Radio founder Gary Parsons is executive chairman of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company. Read the article from the source Read the full article

#offthegrid #nogps #realestateproblems #realestatelife #newestates #wyndhamvale #realestate #realestateagent (at Wyndham Vale) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpSwcBZFSgp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2y9enjqj08py

A non believer has no access to Devine Instruction.. they Are Limited !! To their Senses.. #limited #insrtuction #lost #nogps (at Murfreesboro, Tennessee)

Bike the UK for MS Who actually uses the maps? I learnt that I was the only person actually using the maps for directions. Everyone else had #GPS on their #bikecomputer , so were only using the maps to check elevation. I ended up doing over 1,050 miles (instead of the 1,020) I got lost many times, prolonging my journey. #nogps #moremiles #maps #directions Although the gear list says a simple bike computer will suffice, I would recommend using GPS, especially if you have #ms. Simply because of the below: #cognition - I found it very difficult to navigate as I would instantly forget what I needed to do #msbrain Sometimes things just get lost in your short term memory and I had to constantly check where I was going next #coordination - pulling out the map from the back of my jersey and reading it on the go was almost impossible due to #balance and coordination issues. This meant I had to find suitable places to stop, again adding time to my journey. Also, I quite often lost the paper maps and on rainy days they got too wet to read or disintegrated. Another difficulty was that the maps told you what to do at particular distances (for example at 30.9 miles turn left at the T-junction) some rest stops were not on route and if you got lost you had to add the additional mileage on to the distance. At one point, I was 1.8 miles out and had to add this to the directions. Although I'm a good mathematician it was frustrating at times and #cogfog often ruined this. I enjoyed reading the maps and discovering that I was on the right path! It was a mini adventure in itself. #navigation #biketheukforms #blackgirlwithms #lost #jogle #travelbybike #adventure #memory #thisisMS #mssymptoms #multiplesclerosis https://www.instagram.com/p/BmeEm_CjGqi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tysfj55k9w45