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  2. Satellite navigation device - Wikipedia

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    Vehicle navigation on a personal navigation assistant Garmin eTrex10 edition handheld. A satellite navigation device or satnav device, also known as a satellite navigation receiver or satnav receiver or simply a GPS device, is a user equipment that uses satellites of the Global Positioning System (GPS) or similar global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).

  3. Turn-by-turn navigation - Wikipedia

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    Real-time turn-by-turn navigation instructions by computer was first developed at the MIT Media Laboratory by James Raymond Davis and Christopher M. Schmandt in 1988. [4] Their system, Backseat Driver , monitored the car's position using a system developed by NEC that communicated over a cellular modem with software running on a Symbolics LISP ...

  4. Real-time geotagging - Wikipedia

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    This assisted GPS technology is usual in cellular phones. One alternative to GPS is WiFi triangulation which uses the MAC addresses of nearby wireless access points to determine position. Automatic geotagging relies on media acquisition devices that contain GPS, aGPS, or WiFi or other local positioning systems .

  5. Waze - Wikipedia

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    Waze Mobile Ltd, [2] (/ w eɪ z /; Hebrew: ווייז מובייל בע"מ) doing business as Waze (Hebrew: ווייז), formerly FreeMap Israel, is a subsidiary company of Google that provides satellite navigation software on smartphones and other computers that support the Global Positioning System (GPS).

  6. Smartphone - Wikipedia

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    A Nexus 6, an Android smartphone, displaying the Main Page of the English Wikipedia. A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.

  7. Satellite navigation - Wikipedia

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    The United States' Global Positioning System (GPS) consists of up to 32 medium Earth orbit satellites in six different orbital planes. The exact number of satellites varies as older satellites are retired and replaced. Operational since 1978 and globally available since 1994, GPS is the world's most utilized satellite navigation system.

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  9. Personal navigation assistant - Wikipedia

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    Bicycle navigation on a personal navigation assistant. According to the analyst firm Berg Insight, there were more than 150 million turn-by-turn navigation systems worldwide in mid-2009, including about 35 million factory installed and aftermarket in-dash navigation systems, over 90 million Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) and an estimated 28 million navigation-enabled mobile handsets with GPS.