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The trickiest thing about going to a place you’ve never been before is to orientate oneself and work out where to begin. Here, a little help from #GPS and #OnlineMaps did come in handy but after that, it was back to analogue hardware – a #map and a #compass.

Starting on the road by around 9 am, there was a #footpath that led up the side of the valley into a #wood. In the #MorningLight, the #trees were illuminated by nicely.

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Zum Navigieren mit dem
#GPS Cerät nutze ich die #OpenMTBmap Karten. Ein #Smartphone ist mir zu, schade, sensibel und teuer, um es an den Lenker zu schnallen. Außerdem kann man die Navi Displays, v.a. die von #Garmin, in der Sonne viel besser ablesen und der #Akku hält bei "Bildschirm immer an" viel länger. Mit meinem #Edge1040 fahre ich 8-9 mehrstündige Touren mit 1 Akkuladung. Ein Smartphone hält ohne #Powerbank nicht mal 1 Tour durch.

Quantum Navigation via Magnetic fields.

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Even when the equipment was mounted inside a plane, where interference is much worse, it outperformed existing systems by at least 11x. This is the first time quantum technology has been shown to outperform existing tech in a real-world commercial or military application, a milestone referred to as achieving “quantum advantage."
</quote>

Not only for the military !

interestingengineering.com/inn

Interesting EngineeringNew quantum-based navigation tech beats GPS precision by 50 timesExplore the advantages of Q-CTRL's quantum navigation system that operates independently of GPS and offers unparalleled accuracy.

starting to learn #friction a motion graphics package.
So far all the "bugs" I've found have been operator errors and misunderstandings.

I have a #svg graphic of a bicycle I found on #openclipart following a path that was made from a #gps
track off an #android phone using #viking to view a #OSM map and route and turned into a svg path in #gimp & #inkscape.

Yet to do;
turn the png frames into the video using #shotcut and some music and posted to a nextcloud server.
I 💌 #FLOSS #GNU

"Drivers urged to be careful and use 'common sense' when following GPS detour routes" by KGW News (NBC Portland) - Problems persist with multiple vehicles getting stuck at a time over and over on the same impassable-in-winter roads following #GPS #navigation reroutes when snow or accidents close I-84 in eastern Oregon. kgw.com/article/news/local/eas #travel #PNW #weather #ORwx

New! Installing G-Mouse GPS Receiver And Reading GPS Data On A Raspberry PI

The G-Mouse GPS receiver has a USB interface, a 2 meter long cable, and the GPS receiver itself is magnetic and so can attach to lots of different surfaces.

In this article we'll look at what happens when you plug in the GPS receiver, and then look at a couple of packages you can use to verify that the GPS receiver is working correctly.

hashbangcode.com/article/insta

#! codeInstalling G-Mouse GPS Receiver And Reading GPS Data On A Raspberry PII was looking to add GPS to my Raspberry Pi (specifically the Clockwork uConsole) and found this USB GPS Receiver with 2m Extension Cable on the PiHut website.
The views from Erice to Trapani make you drunk. The drive down sobers you up. Win-win.

Trapani to Erice cable car was under construction and we made the climb to the city that sits 2.5K feet above the sea level in our little rented VW. Took a few snapshots from the GPS monitor — to complete the feeling, just add a sheer cliff on one side of a two way road the width of one car and Bernard Herrmann in the background.

Sitting on my hands, looking at my Cary Grant, I was thinking who I resembled most at the time: Joan Fontaine, Grace Kelly, or Eva Marie Saint.

#travel #sicily #erice #gps #italy
The views from Erice to Trapani make you drunk. The drive down sobers you up. Win-win.

Trapani to Erice cable car was under construction and we made the climb to the city that sits 2.5K feet above the sea level in our little rented VW. Took a few snapshots from the GPS monitor — to complete the feeling, just add a sheer cliff on the side of a two way road that is the width of one car and Bernard Herrmann in the background.

Sitting on my hands, looking at my Cary Grant, I was thinking who I resembled most at the time: Joan Fontaine, Grace Kelly, or Eva Marie Saint.

#travel #sicily #erice #gps #italy

Schade #heise. Wieder mal ein Downer für mich: Ein für mich prinzipiell sehr interessanter Artikel zu Rasenrobotern, der mit keinem Wort erwähnt, ob man eines der Geräte auch ohne Verbindung zum Hersteller voll nutzen kann.

Starke Abhängigkeit zu einer App lässt mich vermuten, dass damit auch die #Cloud mitgemeint ist.

Dann hoffe ich, dass mein alter #Gardena möglichst lange noch durchhält. Der braucht weder Internet noch Cloud noch App für seine Funktion.

"Top 10: Der beste #Mähroboter ohne #Begrenzungskabel mit #Kamera, #GPS oder #Lidar"
heise.de/bestenlisten/testsieg

Nebenbei: der flexible Begrenzungsdraht scheint mir immer noch deutlich praktischer zu sein als die teuren High-Tech-Alternativen: einfach zu installieren, einfach zu korrigieren/finetunen, lästig aber akzeptabel bei der Fehlersuche bei Kabelbruch.

YMMV.

Heise online bestenlistenTop 10: Der beste Mähroboter ohne Begrenzungskabel mit Kamera, GPS oder Lidar | Heise online bestenlistenKabellose Mähroboter erleichtern den Umgang enorm, da kein aufwendiges Verlegen von Draht im Garten nötig ist. Wir haben den Großteil der erhältlichen Modelle getestet und zeigen, welcher der Beste ist. | Heise online bestenlisten

I've published the third article of the series "Maps with Django" 🗺️

You'll learn how to add images to your web map, and how to automatically locate markers by reading GPS information from images using Pillow 📍

paulox.net/2025/04/11/maps-wit

#Django #Pillow #GeoDjango #Python #Maps #Exif #GPS

CC @pillow @django

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