Articles in the In Dash GPS Category
Posted in GPS Navigation, Handheld GPS, In Dash GPS, Portable GPS on 22 January 2012
Buying a car would entail that you know how to drive, and that you’re geographically inclined enough to know what lies a few blocks off and effectively find your own way to a destination. With the present day Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technology however, getting to and from anywhere becomes a simplistic task. I was wondering if someone who wanted to buy a private jet or boat would need to consider GPS as much as someone wanting to buy a vehicle would. Thinking about it, they would probably need it more. How about submarines, perhaps? My silly search for a GPS company catering to almost—if not all—all frontiers brought me to Google, and Google gave me Garmin.
Garmin Ltd. is a parent company of a group of companies that make just what I was curious to find: GPS technologies for any terrain or environment. Garmin navigation systems encompass consumer, aviation, and marine GPS technologies and devices. It’s interesting to see such a company, and even more interesting to think about how they will be in the future. Would Garmin navigation systems be popular for individual consumers or just aviation and/or marine navigation needing companies? Could it out market Magellan Navigations with its name and wrestle Tomtom NV from Europe’s top spot?
It’s remarkable how GPS technologies and devices are slowly but surely erasing the need for traditional maps. With this sort of change, GPS companies and their technologies, such as Garmin navigation systems, would then unavoidably change and adjust with the ever changing tides of the modern times.
