This year ten riders in the Tour de France were equipped with GPS receivers and tracked by the EGNOS network. The entire field of the race could be equipped with GPS within the next few years. This would provide data on each rider's speed and location, which could be incorporated into topographic software that would allow television to display visualizations of one or groups of riders - or even the position of all riders simultaneously.
Read more at the
European Space Agency Website
# posted by MapWatch @ Tuesday, July 27, 2004
