As GPS technology becomes more common, GPS receiver manufacturers, OEM integrators, and contract manufacturers struggle to determine the appropriate standard tests to verify GPS receiver performance.

If your device comes with GPS support and you have a Navigation Application on your PC (such as Microsoft Autoroute), you can use your device as a GPS receiver for the application. Plus, it's ...

By combining data from four satellites at once, a GPS receiver can pinpoint its position on the globe through a process called trilateration. Here’s how it works.

It’s not a foolproof system: Cybercriminals use a tactic called GPS spoofing, which sends inaccurate data to GPS receivers in order to redirect or disrupt a navigation system.

Devices that use GPS have built-in receivers that allow you to pinpoint your location in real-time, no matter where you are.

The usual way of adding GPS capabilities to a project is grabbing an off-the-shelf GPS module, plugging it into a UART, and reading the stream of NMEA sentences coming out of a serial port. Dependi… ...

[superlopez] sent in this detailed article (mirrored here and here) which describes how to build a GPS and GLONASS (the Russian version of GPS) receiver. The resulting device is gigantic compared t… ...