The story of James Kim’s death rattles everyone, it seems. A young man with a young family should have had many years ahead of them. Instead, they got lost and then stranded. He then tried to find help, walking miles, apparently with a map, but only a state map. We’ll never know if he knew [...]

The Geo Factor recently interviewed Tim Flight, who created and maintains the blog GPS Review. GPS Review has an impressive amount of information about GPS devices or all types. The site is fairly popular; ranking 41,762 on Technorati (anything in the top 100,000 is significant) and 117,124 on Alexa’s traffic ranking of all Web sites. [...]

At the CTIA conference last week, there were some announcements about location-based services (LBS) on mobile devices including BlackBerrys and other smartphones. Garmin made a few announcements starting with a navigation system for drivers. The Garmin Mobile 20 system uses voice-prompt directions for drivers, and provides a 3D map display on a BlackBerry or smartphone. [...]