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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.

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News: Man Pays The Price Trying To Avoid Speed Camera Fines

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A taxi driver has paid a heavy price for attempting to pervert the course of justice by trying to blame others for his speeding convictions.

Horatiu Balea, 33, was caught on two occasions whilst driving his licensed cab in the Crawley, West Sussex area. He then tried to lay the blame on two other drivers, one in Spain and one in Romania, but a simple check of the speed camera photos revealed that Balea was indeed the driver.

He pleaded guilty to both offences at Lewes Crown Court where he received two concurrent six-month prison sentences, suspended for two years and was disqualified from driving for three months. He was also ordered to pay £400 in costs and carry out 200 hours' unpaid work.

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Posted by rob brady on Saturday, May 18 @ 09:59:55 BST

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News: JVC Kenwood unveils HUD equipped satnav

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JVC Kenwood Corp have taken the wraps off a navigation system that incorporates a heads-up display (HUD).

Set to go on sale in Japan later this month, the system uses a curved optical screen and projector which clips to the rear-view mirror and also includes more traditional LCD display.

The HUD display is configured to show turn information and junction details but it's questionable if the location of the screen, next to the rear view mirror is the best place for this. The main safety benefits of a heads-up display are keeping the drivers eyes on, or close to, the road.

In factory fit HUD systems, the display is normally above the instrument panel, projecting the image so that it appears suspended above the bonnet.

Source: tech on.nikkeibp.co.jp

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Posted by Darren Griffin on Thursday, May 16 @ 10:08:56 BST

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Subscribers: This Week's Subscriber Awards

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Every time we release the PocketGPSWorld.com Speed Camera Database we award those subscribers whose reports met our qualifying criteria a FREE 1 year membership to the site. We will publish the user-names of those who achieved the award following each release.

Of the 42 unique submitters who were first to make qualifying reports for this weeks database release (11.053) congratulations are due for the following 9 members who have just been awarded a FREE 1 year subscription:

chris2309, Daveeyt, flyinmarrow, Gimbo, jrmalcolmson, mantavec, mtoo, niva441, Silver_Surfer.


Twelve users missed out by not having a qualifying subscription. The remaining 21 were Lifetime Members. Our continued thanks to: Arf-RS, axemfoxem, bugsy44, CAA_0810050326, CAA_1130221413, DennisN, fredbloggs123, jeff-d, jimbo515, jonnyprice, lotaresco, mattysdad, mcousin, Monopole, OBH6UK, Repsol, Slugmaster, spannersatcx, sturmey, tonyhgv, ucdu.

If you have an auto-renewing PayPal subscription then please note that the renewal will still occur even though you have the free extra year - the renewal will simply add another year. If you do not want this to happen then please follow this guide to cancel the renewal. Note that cancelling the renewal will mean you will lose any discounted price once you resubscribe. 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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Posted by maft on Thursday, May 16 @ 02:31:43 BST

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News: The Next GPS Satellite Is Set To Launch Tonight

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Tonight an Atlas V will launch the latest GPS satellite into orbit to maintain the constellation of navigation satellites managed by the United States Air Force. Previous GPS Satellites have been launched on the Delta II and Delta IV rockets, with the early satellites using Atlas E/F configurations, making todays launch the inaugural mission for GPS on an Atlas V rocket and 28 years since the last GPS launch on an Atlas booster.

The launch is scheduled to take place between 5:38 and 5:56pm EDT tonight and you can track the countdown and watch the launch video on AmericaSpace with the AmericaSpace.com Launch Tracker . The countdown progress can be followed with live mission updates and a video feed of the final countdown and launch will commence about 20 minutes before the launch at 5:18pm EDT or 22:18 BST.

A pre-launch report follows:

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Posted by Mike Barrett on Wednesday, May 15 @ 14:39:37 BST

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Subscribers: The PocketGPSWorld.com CamerAlert Speed Camera Database Has Just Been Updated!

Speed Cameras


Version 11.053 - 15 May 2013

This release sees 72 static and mobile speed cameras added/removed/modified across the various speed camera databases. Please keep submitting all sightings of mobile speed cameras so we can keep our database up to date with active sites. Apparently-inactive sites are regularly removed from the database (note that these do not get included in the total above).

Please click here for the full breakdown of country, speed camera type and number. All members submitting qualifying reports of static/mobile speed cameras will be credited with their subscription awards by 17:00 16 May 13.

The Garmin GPSR database (for older devices) is now up to date (8.50pm, 15 May 13)

Dont forget our RSS feed which is updated every time we release the speed camera database. Simply right click on the RSS image and select copy shortcut, then post the link into your favourite RSS reader.

You can submit new speed camera locations or submit changes to current cameras by following this link to the submission page and you can download the database via this link.

A beginner's guide to the speed camera database can be found here, and some installation instructions for most units can be found here.

Please watch for further announcements on the homepage or sign up to our weekly newsletter alerts which carry full details of future speed camera database releases. The newsletter signup box is located on the top left of all site pages. Your privacy is important to us, we do not sell on your email details.
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Posted by maft on Wednesday, May 15 @ 11:23:42 BST

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News: Adelaide Commuters Get GPS Tracking For Bus, Train and Tram

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The deputy CEO of Adelaide's Transport Department, Emma Thomas, has announced that commuters will soon be able to track their public transport by GPS. At present all buses, trams and trains in the South Australia Capital city are fitted with GPS trackers for traffic and service monitoring.

From July commuters will have access to this data too although the finer details such as if it will be via smartphone apps or a website are not yet known.

Would this be of benefit to you? What f it was rolled out in your home town, would the knowledge of your bus' location be helpful or are you unorganised like me and feel you'd just end up racing the bus to the bus stop...?

Source: Herald Sun

Map imagery: Open Street Map

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Posted by maft on Monday, May 13 @ 18:37:19 BST

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News: Public To Quiz Speed Camera Police

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The public are being given the chance to ask questions directly to North Yorkshire's police speed camera team via an hour long live web chat on Wednesday 15th May at 6pm.

The manager of North Yorkshire Police’s mobile safety camera team, Dave Brown, and PC Andy Forth will host the chat, in what promises to be a lively session.

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Posted by rob brady on Monday, May 13 @ 16:10:16 BST

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Subscribers: This Week's Subscriber Awards

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Every time we release the PocketGPSWorld.com Speed Camera Database we award those subscribers whose reports met our qualifying criteria a FREE 1 year membership to the site. We will publish the user-names of those who achieved the award following each release.

Of the 44 unique submitters who were first to make qualifying reports for this weeks database release (11.052) congratulations are due for the following 9 members who have just been awarded a FREE 1 year subscription:

Daveeyt, davidthomas22, davo77, m1k3, mwabrown, PawnStar, Stampy72, twink25, wezy1967.


Ten users missed out by not having a qualifying subscription. The remaining 25 were Lifetime Members. Our continued thanks to: 2JPW, AlanHo, bloby, bw2020, CA_0526002332, chambed, CJJE, david5354, dchaseldine, DJ1, DuncanBerg, falkirk81, Gardela, GingerNut, Iulian, jaycanada, kelly104, leech195, lily, mark85, marksfish, Morseman2003, pyjohnson, shilcor, soundman2.

If you have an auto-renewing PayPal subscription then please note that the renewal will still occur even though you have the free extra year - the renewal will simply add another year. If you do not want this to happen then please follow this guide to cancel the renewal. Note that cancelling the renewal will mean you will lose any discounted price once you resubscribe. 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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Posted by maft on Thursday, May 09 @ 15:53:24 BST

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News: Facebook in talks to buy Waze

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Facebook is looking to purchase Israeli navigation firm Waze if reports are to be believed.

Reuters is reporting that advanced talks have been underway for some time with Waze valued at between $800 and $1 billion.

Waze is a navigation app, driven by a user generated map, that gathers traffic and other road data from its user base. Users can share real-time information on traffic jams and other hazards.

Waze is already a Facebook partner, their app allows users to share data with Facebook friends. Waze reports it has a user base of 45 million drivers world-wide.

Source: Reuters

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Posted by Darren Griffin on Thursday, May 09 @ 12:17:34 BST

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News: The first GPS NAVSTAR satellite - NTS-2 goes on display

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The first ever GPS Navstar satellite, or at least the non-flying twin of it, has gone on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

NTS-2 was the first of a four vehicle fleet of satellites, built by the Naval Research Laboratory, to demonstrate navigation positioning using satellites.

Launched in June 1977 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NTS-2 carried two caesium atomic clocks and demonstrated 'passive ranging, the all important ability to measure the distance from the receiver to the satellite.

Once you could achieve that, and had access to two or more satellites, you could calculate your position.

Source: Naval Research Laborator

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Posted by Darren Griffin on Thursday, May 09 @ 11:37:23 BST

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Subscribers: The PocketGPSWorld.com CamerAlert Speed Camera Database Has Just Been Updated!

Speed Cameras


Version 11.052 - 08 May 2013

This release sees 77 static and mobile speed cameras added/removed/modified across the various speed camera databases. Please keep submitting all sightings of mobile speed cameras so we can keep our database up to date with active sites. Apparently-inactive sites are regularly removed from the database (note that these do not get included in the total above).

Please click here for the full breakdown of country, speed camera type and number. All members submitting qualifying reports of static/mobile speed cameras will be credited with their subscription awards by 17:00 09 May 13.

The Garmin GPSR database (for older devices) is currently 11.043 (24 Apr 13)

Dont forget our RSS feed which is updated every time we release the speed camera database. Simply right click on the RSS image and select copy shortcut, then post the link into your favourite RSS reader.

You can submit new speed camera locations or submit changes to current cameras by following this link to the submission page and you can download the database via this link.

A beginner's guide to the speed camera database can be found here, and some installation instructions for most units can be found here.

Please watch for further announcements on the homepage or sign up to our weekly newsletter alerts which carry full details of future speed camera database releases. The newsletter signup box is located on the top left of all site pages. Your privacy is important to us, we do not sell on your email details.
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Posted by maft on Wednesday, May 08 @ 19:20:33 BST

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News: 305 Redundant Cameras Left In Limbo

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The Express and Star have reported that the fate of 305 redundant speed cameras in the West Midlands is the subject of debate.

Apparently the decision is to spend £489,000 to upgrade some of the currently empty cased, wet-film speed camera to digital technology or pay £178,000 to have them removed altogether.

The region's councils' speed cameras budget was reduced by £750,000 in 2011. This left West Midlands Police to have to find the remaining £1m bill.

The decision was then made last year to switch to mobile cameras and they increased the fleet of mobile camera vans from two to four.

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Posted by rob brady on Friday, May 03 @ 19:34:52 BST

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News: Russia launches latest GLONASS-M satellite

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Russia successfully launched another satellite for their GLONASS network on April 26th,

The GLONASS-M was launched into orbit atop a Soyuz 2-1b Fregat-M booster and will shortly begin a long testing phase before it is activated for service.

GLONASS-M is the second generation of GLONASS satellite and has an enhanced operational lifetime of 7 years. Each satellite consists of a large, dual panel solar array and 25 L-Band channels broadcasting in tow frequency bands between 1240 and 1602MHz. Atomic clocks provide the reference timing signals accurate to more than 1000 nanoseconds.

Upto 3 GLONASS satellites can be launched on one rocket when using the Proton family of boosters but only single satellite launches are possible using Soyuz 2-1b.

Once commissioned, this satellite will join the existing fleet of 23 active satellites.

Source: pravda.ru

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Posted by Darren Griffin on Thursday, May 02 @ 16:36:56 BST

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News: Apple looking at better car integration

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Apple is rumoured to be looking at better integration with car dashboards in the next version of iOS, its smartphone and tablet software.

9to5mac is reporting that Apple is already working with car manufacturers to closely integrate iOS with the vehicle and is further looking at its own solutions for mounting devices in the car.

Apple are allegedly looking at a system that allows data from apps running on the iOS device to be displayed on the vehicle's dashboard display in a similar fashion to that demonstrated by VNC and others.

Whilst the benefits of such integration are clear, getting vehicle manufacturers on-board is the biggest hurdle and consumers would surely prefer a third party system for such connectivity that did not tie them to a single manufacturers devices.

Source: 9to5mac.com

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Posted by Darren Griffin on Thursday, May 02 @ 13:09:44 BST

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Subscribers: This Week's Subscriber Awards

Free Subscriptions!
Every time we release the PocketGPSWorld.com Speed Camera Database we award those subscribers whose reports met our qualifying criteria a FREE 1 year membership to the site. We will publish the user-names of those who achieved the award following each release.

Of the 48 unique submitters who were first to make qualifying reports for this weeks database release (11.051) congratulations are due for the following 11 members who have just been awarded a FREE 1 year subscription:

bill6, brannighan, CA_1115111407, CAA_0226160619, davidrew, DJL62, GavinB, Lordmonkeyboy, PedroJ, rapurvey, williaa68.


Fifteen users missed out by not having a qualifying subscription. The remaining 22 were Lifetime Members. Our continued thanks to: barryvfr800, CA_1105071033, CA_1205233928, Eyebeear, falkirk81, fedup, hudsonl, jeff4649, Les_P, lonesome, MaFt, mcousin, MDRedwood, Morseman2003, MrSoapsud, NAleksander, ollieollie100, philipvarey, sandiesasha, Savroo, Sele, tonyhgv.

If you have an auto-renewing PayPal subscription then please note that the renewal will still occur even though you have the free extra year - the renewal will simply add another year. If you do not want this to happen then please follow this guide to cancel the renewal. Note that cancelling the renewal will mean you will lose any discounted price once you resubscribe. 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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Posted by maft on Thursday, May 02 @ 12:29:17 BST

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