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Welcome To PocketGPSWorld
Now that you have found us we hope you will find our forums a friendly and helpful place to ask questions and receive answers. With over 350,000 registered users, we have one of the busiest satnav forums.
We offer unbiased reviews of all manner of GPS devices and you can be sure that we have tested every device we review, no PR re-hashes here, just honest opinions and in-depth experience from our team of respected editors and moderators.
We also produce the PocketGPSWorld Speed Camera Database, a speed camera warning service compatible with a huge range of satnavs. It is the most comprehensive database of its kind and now covers 40 countries. Don't take our word for it, take a wander through our forums and see what our customers think of our database and our service. Their feedback is better than any marketing spiel we can come up with.
And finally, don't be afraid to ask, if you need satnav help, want to install speed camera data, or just need advice on a purchase, we are here to help. Don't be shy. |
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News: LightSquared’s Troubles Rumble On
According to the American National Space-Based Position, Navigating and Timing Executive Committee (PNT-Excom), the planned introduction of 4G LTE broadband by LightSquared could cause disruption to GPS receivers.
In what has become an ongoing battle between the bodies, PNT-Excom claimed GPS receivers would encounter interference following the introduction of these services.
According to their report, even GPS systems found within flight navigation systems may be affected.
The declaration follows tests on the proposed broadband system which detected the interference.
Deputy Defense Secretary, Ashton Carter, and Deputy Transportation Secretary, John D. Porcari, wrote that, "Based upon this testing and analysis, there appear to be no practical solutions or mitigations that would permit the LightSquared broadband service, as proposed, to operate in the next few months or years without significantly interfering with GPS."
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Subscribers: The Latest Lifetime Members
 Every time we release the PocketGPSWorld.com Speed Camera Database we award those subscribers whose reports met our qualifying criteria a FREE Lifetime Membership to the site. We will publish the user-names of those who achieved the award following each release.
Of the 40 unique submitters who were first to make qualifying reports for this weeks database release (10.014) congratulations are due for the following 9 members who have just been awarded a FREE Lifetime Subscription:
CA_0122062126, johndanson, kikabyte, mrsasmith, rogermartin, stone, tinapatra, tisiman, triafgg.
Two users missed out by not having a subscription at the time of submission. The remaining 29 qualifying submitters were already Lifetime Members. Our continued thanks to: Alfygiz, AliOnHols, BMW330, bw2020, CA_1205233928, CAA_0420102504, CAA_0503050045, CAA_1130221413, citron, cloggienl, curtlyb, DennisN, Desborough, disco1974, doorman, Francis_Albert, Hodenwaffe, hudsonl, ihunter, iwhitmore, jamietre, lbendlin, MaFt, Marinemw, pillboxman, pyromana, spajohn, spotter1844, willyroo.
If you are one of this week's lucky subscribers, the 'Lifetime Member' rank will be added under your forum name in due course. For any current Lifetime Members who would like the tag adding then please click here to make your request.
New Lifetime Members: If you have an auto-renewing subscription (any PayPal subscription from September 2008) then please cancel the renewal from within your PayPal account as you will no longer have to pay to download! If you have any difficulties with this then please click here to raise a support ticket.
Our thanks to those who support the database and continue to report sites and locations, this is the reward, and for those who prefer to steal and abuse the service, read this thread. We WILL detect you.
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News: New Location Sharing Service - Glympse - And We Like It
There's nothing new about location tracking solutions and there are countless apps and services that you can use to share your location with family and friends. But none have stood out, until now.
Glympse is a relative newcomer but it's kicking up quite a storm with it's service. It allows you to share your location and provide live tracking which can be viewed on a computer or smartphone. You choose who gets to track you and for how long. You can send your location to a single person, a group and you can even share it on Facebook or Twitter.
A simple timer setting allows you to set how long the sharing is active for which solves the worry of forgetting to turn tracking off. Better still, if you're sharing a particular journey, you can set it to expire on your arrival. A nice feature.
But by far the best feature is the quality of the tracking itself. Delivered in real-time, progress is displayed via a Google Map overlay with fluid movement and additional data such as ETA and, optionally, speed.
When you send an invite, or 'glympse' as the app authors call them, the recipient gets an email with a link which takes them to the Glympse website with your live location.
It's a great service, works well, and has a myriad of uses. It's the best of it's kind that we've seen and it is all free.
The Glympse app is available, free of charge, for Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry. For more information see their website at glympse.com.
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Subscribers: The Latest Lifetime Members
Every time we release the PocketGPSWorld.com Speed Camera Database we award those subscribers whose reports met our qualifying criteria a FREE Lifetime Membership to the site. We will publish the user-names of those who achieved the award following each release.
Of the 31 unique submitters who were first to make qualifying reports for this weeks database release (10.013) congratulations are due for the following 10 members who have just been awarded a FREE Lifetime Subscription:
CA_0116133010, CAA_0402130144, chaparello, Francis_Albert, jamesjay, jamietre, magentius, mukka, raremagic, scazman.
One user missed out by not having a subscription at the time of submission. The remaining 20 qualifying submitters were already Lifetime Members. Our continued thanks to: And3_T, bpmhutch, Bruceclarke, bw2020, CA_1205233928, CAA_0420102504, CAA_1130221413, casper256, dartmoorwanderer, hudsonl, IcarusR, jsinglet, nwinton, patentx, paul_and_kim, si_b1979, VictorG, Vkelly753, VWDriver, wej1976.
If you are one of this week's lucky subscribers, the 'Lifetime Member' rank will be added under your forum name in due course. For any current Lifetime Members who would like the tag adding then please click here to make your request.
New Lifetime Members: If you have an auto-renewing subscription (any PayPal subscription from September 2008) then please cancel the renewal from within your PayPal account as you will no longer have to pay to download! If you have any difficulties with this then please click here to raise a support ticket.
Our thanks to those who support the database and continue to report sites and locations, this is the reward, and for those who prefer to steal and abuse the service, read this thread. We WILL detect you.
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News: Google Caught Playing Dirty .... End Of Don't Be Evil?
Google have once again been caught playing dirty by eagle eyed admins. Last week, Mocality, a Kenyan business startup, noticed some off records in their logs and, after investigating, found that Google staff were scraping data. Mocality even seeded false data to ensnare Google and sure enough, Google were caught red handed.
Now Google have been caught red handed yet again, this time by our friends at OpenStreetmap. Clearly, their unofficial Motto, 'Don't Be Evil', has been dropped.
Investigation has revealed that users from Google owned IP addresses in India (the same IP addresses identified by Mocality) have been deleting, editing and otherwise vandalizing OpenStreetMap data including reversing one-way streets in London, New York and other locations.
OpenStreetMap are now analysing their log data but it's left everyone wondering if we're being far too trusting in allowing Google access to so much of our data, emails, contacts and addresses.
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