Tag Archives: Global Positioning System (GPS)

Oregon State to receive $6.5M for federal effort to modernize geospatial coordinate system

Oregon State University is one of four institutions selected to advance a federal effort to modernize the National Spatial Reference System, which underpins surveying, mapping, autonomous vehicle navigation, precision agriculture and the rest of the United States’ geospatial economy. OSU will receive $6.5 million over five years from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for […]
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Editorial: ODOT breach raises questions on GPS in vehicles

The breach of Oregon data of driver’s licenses, permits and ID cards was, well, pretty crummy.It put 3.5 million Oregonians at risk for identity theft and put their credit at risk. As much as we aspire to be serene about data breaches — they are going to happen — it is not going to inspire […]
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Faulty GPS tracking may have kept killer out of jail

The man who shot and killed his wife and her sister in the Scholls area on Nov. 16 before killing himself should have been in jail the night the crimes occurred — as GPS tracking software showed he’d violated the terms of his jail release agreement.Washington County District Attorney Kevin Barton says a failure to […]
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State Officials Are Searching for an Oregon-Born Wolf Who’s Been Missing for Over a Month

Oregon and California state biologists are collaborating on a flyover search party. Last summer, biologists fitted a gray wolf living near Mount Hood with a tracking collar. Then, in February, the wolf did something remarkable—he crossed the border into California, and became the first wolf spotted near Yosemite in over 100 years. Now, that wolf […]
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Wolf lovers fear worst after OR-93’s radio collar goes dark

An adventurous young gray wolf that crossed into California from Oregon has not been documented since early April, spurring speculation that he may be dead. Wildlife officials who track OR-93 through his radio collar said he stopped emitting “pings” April 5 in San Luis Obispo County, which is roughly midway between San Francisco and Los […]
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Oregon hoping to launch COVID-19 exposure notification app in near future

Like Washington, Oregon is hoping to launch a COVID-19 exposure notification app in the near future. Source: Oregon hoping to launch COVID-19 exposure notification app in near future

GPS Data Shows Eastern Oregon Isn’t Listening to Social Distancing Directives

Oregonians are reducing their travel far less than people in other states—at least according to their cellphones. Last week, Gov. Kate Brown worried Oregonians east of the Cascades weren’t heeding her warnings to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic. “It doesn’t feel real in Eastern Oregon,” Brown said March 17, “and we are struggling to communicate the […]
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Big Brother during the coronavirus crisis: GPS data shows which Oregonians are following ‘social-distancing initiatives’

Oregon has a lot of wide-open spaces. The state takes up some 98,000 square miles and has only 4 million people wandering around inside it. That should give most Oregonians plenty of room to maintain appropriate distance from one another as the novel coronavirus bears down on the state. Source: Big Brother during the coronavirus […]
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Driving into danger: Be wary of map apps

With many mountain roads closed for the winter, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office is warning drivers to use common sense when it comes to following driving directions from a GPS device or cellphone map app. Sheriff’s Office search and rescue deputies have already responded to calls involving people who followed directions provided by their phone’s […]
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Newest GPS satellites to head to space

After months of delays, the U.S. Air Force hopes to launch the first of a new generation of GPS satellites, designed to be more accurate, secure and versatile, on Wednesday. But some of their most highly touted features will not be fully available until 2022 or later because of problems in a companion program to […]
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