Google announced many new software treats at Google I/O today. Aparna Chennapragada introduced one of the best new features: visual guidance and Visual Positioning System in Google Maps Navigation. We ...

Fifteen times around the world every day; that's the distance Nokia's Ovi Maps guides users every day, and with the quiet introduction of Ovi Maps SR4 (v3.0.4) that number is likely to get even bigger ...

No audio available for this content. Figure 1. Example of the GNSS signal propagation using ray-tracing and a 3D building map. A particle-filter-based positioning method using a 3D map to rectify the ...

News.com's blog reports that Google is set to launch a new feature in Google Maps for Mobile that will automatically set our location even in phones that lack a global positioning system (GPS) device.

A lane-keeping system uses a sensor-fusion engine integrating GPS and an IMU with a two-stage map-matching algorithm. The system does not require explicit lane-level geo-referencing, saving massive ...

Silicon Valley startup Civil Maps creates detailed street-level maps of cities using vector-based graphics, letting cars determine their position based on distance to known objects. Wayne Cunningham ...

In May 2018, during its annual I/O developer conference, Google announced a new feature for its Maps mobile app, called the AR Visual Positioning System. It provides navigation via a layer of ...