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  1. Test flight using Quantum Sensor based navigation = success!

    "MagNav" employs quantum sensors to detect variations in Earth’s natural magnetic field and create a "map" that aircraft can use to determine their position without depending on satellite or GPS signals.

    The test = an Embraer 170 flew for 4 hours and 23 minutes over the Pacific Ocean, from Seattle to southern Alaska and back. The system improved position accuracy by 89% compared with conventional backup navigation systems. interestingengineering.com/mil

  2. Test flight using Quantum Sensor based navigation = success!

    "MagNav" employs quantum sensors to detect variations in Earth’s natural magnetic field and create a "map" that aircraft can use to determine their position without depending on satellite or GPS signals.

    The test = an Embraer 170 flew for 4 hours and 23 minutes over the Pacific Ocean, from Seattle to southern Alaska and back. The system improved position accuracy by 89% compared with conventional backup navigation systems. interestingengineering.com/mil #AirFlight #AirNavigation #AirCraft #Quantum #QuantumSensors #MagneticSensor #EarthMagnetism #Navigation #MagNav #GPS #Satellite #DoD

  3. Drive and navigate European 🇪🇺

    ❌ 🇺🇸👎 Google maps, Apple Maps, Waze, Bing Maps ❌

    ✅ 🇪🇺👍
    🇪🇺 CoMaps @[email protected]
    🇳🇱 Flitsmeister
    🇳🇱 HERE WeGo
    🇳🇱 MagicEarth
    🇳🇱 TomTom Go
    🇩🇪 NUNAV
    🇨🇿 Mapy.com
    🇸🇰 Sygic
    🇪🇺 OsmAnd
    🇫🇷 @[email protected]
    #Navigation #Traffic

    Mapy.com

  4. US-Militär testet Quantensensoren für Flugnavigation ohne GPS über Pazifik

    Die DIU hat das MagNav-System von Honeywell Aerospace bei einem Testflug über dem Pazifik erprobt. Das Navigationssystem kommt gänzlich ohne GPS aus.

    heise.de/news/US-Militaer-test

    #GPS #Navigation #Wirtschaft #Wissenschaft #news

  5. The Russian navigation app 2GIS shows an ad for a place... in a completely different location. You’d think this “8 Марта” place is right here, but it’s actually on the opposite side of the city. What you see is just a banner ad.

    Thanks @khambogrus for the picture

    #Cartography #Navigation #Map #GPS #2GIS #Ad #Banner

  6. The Russian navigation app 2GIS shows an ad for a place... in a completely different location. You’d think this “8 Марта” place is right here, but it’s actually on the opposite side of the city. What you see is just a banner ad.

    Thanks @khambogrus for the picture

    #Cartography #Navigation #Map #GPS #2GIS #Ad #Banner

  7. The Russian navigation app 2GIS shows an ad for a place... in a completely different location. You’d think this “8 Марта” place is right here, but it’s actually on the opposite side of the city. What you see is just a banner ad.

    Thanks @khambogrus for the picture

    #Cartography #Navigation #Map #GPS #2GIS #Ad #Banner

  8. The Russian navigation app 2GIS shows an ad for a place... in a completely different location. You’d think this “8 Марта” place is right here, but it’s actually on the opposite side of the city. What you see is just a banner ad.

    Thanks @khambogrus for the picture

    #Cartography #Navigation #Map #GPS #2GIS #Ad #Banner

  9. The Russian navigation app 2GIS shows an ad for a place... in a completely different location. You’d think this “8 Марта” place is right here, but it’s actually on the opposite side of the city. What you see is just a banner ad.

    Thanks @khambogrus for the picture

    #Cartography #Navigation #Map #GPS #2GIS #Ad #Banner

  10. Swiss researchers are scaling up trials of quantum navigation systems that don't rely on GPS. This breakthrough could provide dependable positioning in contested or denied environments — with implications for defense, shipping, aviation, and autonomous vehicles. Read the full analysis and implications for industry: wix.to/VTh9KuS

    #R&D
    #Innovation
    #Navigation
    #DefenseTech
    #AutonomousVehicles
    #QuantumTechnology

  11. Swiss researchers are scaling up trials of quantum navigation systems that don't rely on GPS. This breakthrough could provide dependable positioning in contested or denied environments — with implications for defense, shipping, aviation, and autonomous vehicles. Read the full analysis and implications for industry: wix.to/VTh9KuS

    &D




  12. Swiss researchers are scaling up trials of quantum navigation systems that don't rely on GPS. This breakthrough could provide dependable positioning in contested or denied environments — with implications for defense, shipping, aviation, and autonomous vehicles. Read the full analysis and implications for industry: wix.to/VTh9KuS

    #R&D
    #Innovation
    #Navigation
    #DefenseTech
    #AutonomousVehicles
    #QuantumTechnology

  13. Swiss researchers are scaling up trials of quantum navigation systems that don't rely on GPS. This breakthrough could provide dependable positioning in contested or denied environments — with implications for defense, shipping, aviation, and autonomous vehicles. Read the full analysis and implications for industry: wix.to/VTh9KuS

    #R&D
    #Innovation
    #Navigation
    #DefenseTech
    #AutonomousVehicles
    #QuantumTechnology

  14. Swiss researchers are scaling up trials of quantum navigation systems that don't rely on GPS. This breakthrough could provide dependable positioning in contested or denied environments — with implications for defense, shipping, aviation, and autonomous vehicles. Read the full analysis and implications for industry: wix.to/VTh9KuS

    #R&D
    #Innovation
    #Navigation
    #DefenseTech
    #AutonomousVehicles
    #QuantumTechnology

  15. 🚀 Apparently, someone thought the #galaxy needed more #maps, but this one is just a glorified #doodle with #sci-fi flair. 🤖 If you ever wanted to navigate the cosmos with labels that mean nothing, this is your ticket to... nowhere. 🌌🗺️
    cartographia40k.com/ #cosmic #navigation #humorous #design #HackerNews #ngated

  16. 🚀 Apparently, someone thought the #galaxy needed more #maps, but this one is just a glorified #doodle with #sci-fi flair. 🤖 If you ever wanted to navigate the cosmos with labels that mean nothing, this is your ticket to... nowhere. 🌌🗺️
    cartographia40k.com/ #cosmic #navigation #humorous #design #HackerNews #ngated

  17. 🚀 Apparently, someone thought the #galaxy needed more #maps, but this one is just a glorified #doodle with #sci-fi flair. 🤖 If you ever wanted to navigate the cosmos with labels that mean nothing, this is your ticket to... nowhere. 🌌🗺️
    cartographia40k.com/ #cosmic #navigation #humorous #design #HackerNews #ngated

  18. 🚀 Apparently, someone thought the #galaxy needed more #maps, but this one is just a glorified #doodle with #sci-fi flair. 🤖 If you ever wanted to navigate the cosmos with labels that mean nothing, this is your ticket to... nowhere. 🌌🗺️
    cartographia40k.com/ #cosmic #navigation #humorous #design #HackerNews #ngated

  19. 🚀 Apparently, someone thought the #galaxy needed more #maps, but this one is just a glorified #doodle with #sci-fi flair. 🤖 If you ever wanted to navigate the cosmos with labels that mean nothing, this is your ticket to... nowhere. 🌌🗺️
    cartographia40k.com/ #cosmic #navigation #humorous #design #HackerNews #ngated

  20. Using satellite images, researchers from TUM and the University of Oxford developed a new method to measure tidal variability with greater precision, helping to improve #coastalprotection and #navigation: go.tum.de/933512 🌊 🛰️

    #SatelliteData

    📷iStock/ edb3_16

  21. Can anyone recommend a good free / foss-Type navigation or guidance app for android that could be useful for a long (1 to 2 week) walk? I’m trying to avoid Komoot, am interested to see if you have any good suggestions 👍 Thanks in advance 🙂 maybe boost if you like to increase range.

    #navigation #app #android #LongWalk #recommendations

  22. Taxi Drivers Rarely Die Of Alzheimer’s – How Complex Mental Maps And Spatial Reasoning Protect Your Brain [why knowing your way around might help you stay sharp]
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    theconversation.com/taxi-drive <-- shared technical article
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    doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-082194 <-- shared paper
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    doi.org/10.1073/pnas.070039597 <-- shared paper
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    doi.org/10.1038/s41582-018-003 <-- shared paper
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    tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and- <-- details of @Transport for London’s ‘The Knowledge’ details
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    youtu.be/u7gp8KBP7ak?si=X1xXcy <-- shared video, ‘The People Who Have To Remember 25,000 Streets | The [London] Knowledge - The World's Toughest Taxi Test’
    --
    H/T @ Jennifer Psillas, GISP | GIS Project Manager at City of Tucson Parks and Recreation
    “Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly 9 million people in the U.S…
    Of the 9 million death certificates from January 2020 to December 2022 that researchers examined, taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer’s disease out of 443 occupations. After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly 1 in 100 taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer’s, compared with 1 in 60 people overall.
    This pattern did not extend to other driving jobs. The researchers concluded that the key to reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s was not driving itself but continuous real-time navigation: the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change. Drivers whose jobs relied on fixed or predetermined routes, like bus drivers and aircraft pilots, didn’t seem to experience a similar advantage.
    Researchers believe the association between navigation-heavy work and lower Alzheimer’s risk centers on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and spatial navigation. It’s one of the first brain regions that Alzheimer’s damages: Problems with spatial navigation and orientation are among the earliest signs of the disease, sometimes surfacing before obvious memory loss.
    In one landmark 2000 study [link above], neuroscientists compared the brains of licensed London taxi drivers with those of people who did not drive cabs. Their findings provided the first evidence via structural imaging that regions of the adult brain can measurably change under sustained navigational demand. To earn a license, London cabbies must memorize more than 25,000 streets within a 6-mile radius of Charing Cross, a challenge known as “The Knowledge” that takes three to four years…”
    #spatialnavigation #orientation #mental #acuity #taxi #ambulance #paramedic #TheKnowledge #London #UK #Alzheimer #mapping #mentalmaps #spatialmapping #navigation #spatialreasoning #brain #hippocampus #brainhealth #death #mortality #disease #publichealth #scans #occupation #job

  23. Zahlen, bitte! Mit isochronen Karten in 20 Tagen ans Ende der zivilisierten Welt

    Isochrone Karten helfen bei der Reisezeitplanung. Die Idee dazu hatte ein umtriebiger Afrikaforscher, der eine Weltreisekarte mit Startpunkt London schuf.

    heise.de/hintergrund/Zahlen-bi

    #Journal #Navigation #Wissenschaft #Zahlenbitte #news

  24. Hype for the Future 214A: Chicago Communities

    Introduction Chicago is a notable major city representative of the Midwestern region of the United States along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan at the nearest point of the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River watershed in the northeastern portion of the State of Illinois. While the city is considered the third-largest in the United States (after New York and Los Angeles), Cook County, where the city is primarily located, is the second-largest in terms of population (after only Los […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  25. Hat noch wer ein Problem mit #Osmand?

    Die große #NRW-#Karte ist nicht mehr installierbar, also die Details für alle Regionen in NRW. Ich habe "Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg", was für Teile NRWs Details anzeigt. Manche anderen Regierungsbezirke finde ich aber nicht in der Suche der Kartenverwaltung, und Download wird mir beim Rauszoomen und Tip auf fehlende Region auch nicht angezeigt...

    #OpenStreetMap #Navigation

  26. A Rare Alignment Is On The Move. 🧭 [Three Norths]
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    ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/thre <-- shared technical article
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    youtu.be/18kQrt3KCbM?si=a9fXvj <-- shared video overview
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    “On 13 December, the rare alignment of true north, magnetic north and grid north - known as the three norths - leaves England at Berwick-upon-Tweed, bringing a remarkable three-year chapter to a close.
    Magnetic north is monitored using geomagnetic data from the British Geological Survey, combined with Ordnance Survey’s National Grid to track how this alignment shifts over time..."
    #truenorth #magneticnorth #gridnorth #UK #coincidence #navigation #threenorths #alignment #GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #globe #north #model #modeling #magnetism #geomagnetism #England #survey #triplealignment #NationalGrid
    @Ordnance Survey

  27. 📱 Hướng dẫn xem la bàn trên điện thoại: La bàn tích hợp giúp định hướng nhanh trong mọi tình huống. Để đạt độ chính xác cao, bạn cần bật tính năng, căn chỉnh mặt trời hoặc chuyển động 8 hình chữ "8" để hiệu chuẩn. Thực hiện các bước này sẽ giúp bạn luôn biết hướng đúng khi di chuyển.

    #công_nghệ #la_ban #smartphone #hướng_dẫn #navigation #technology #Vietnam #định_hướng #tutorial

    vtcnews.vn/huong-dan-xem-la-ba

  28. Ben Glas, child summit to Beinn Chabhair. I set out with a vague plan of attack. The way up I took was adventurous to say the least and to be honest if I was to do it again, I'd choose another route 😂. The rarity of having a whole mountain to myself albeit silently eerie is cherished.

    #benglas #chabhair #mountain #scotland #scottish #highlands #lochlomond #hiking #mountainleader #hikescotland #walks #walking #adventure #outdoors #navigation #mountainskills #loch #ordnancesurvey #photography

  29. Ben Glas, child summit to Beinn Chabhair. I set out with a vague plan of attack. The way up I took was adventurous to say the least and to be honest if I was to do it again, I'd choose another route 😂. The rarity of having a whole mountain to myself albeit silently eerie is cherished.

    #benglas #chabhair #mountain #scotland #scottish #highlands #lochlomond #hiking #mountainleader #hikescotland #walks #walking #adventure #outdoors #navigation #mountainskills #loch #ordnancesurvey #photography

  30. Ben Glas, child summit to Beinn Chabhair. I set out with a vague plan of attack. The way up I took was adventurous to say the least and to be honest if I was to do it again, I'd choose another route 😂. The rarity of having a whole mountain to myself albeit silently eerie is cherished.

    #benglas #beinnchabhair #mountain #scotland #scottish #highlands #lochlomond #hiking #mountainleader #hikescotland #walks #walking #adventure #outdoors #navigation #mountainskills #loch #ordnancesurvey

  31. Ben Glas, child summit to Beinn Chabhair. I set out with a vague plan of attack. The way up I took was adventurous to say the least and to be honest if I was to do it again, I'd choose another route 😂. The rarity of having a whole mountain to myself albeit silently eerie is cherished.

    #benglas #chabhair #mountain #scotland #scottish #highlands #lochlomond #hiking #mountainleader #hikescotland #walks #walking #adventure #outdoors #navigation #mountainskills #loch #ordnancesurvey #photography