Emergency response crews located a woman involved in a boating accident using information transmitted from her cell phone. This is one of the better stories of how valuable GPS can be in rescue efforts.
Read more about
GPS / Cell Phone Rescue at the Galveston Daily News.
You can also visit our "
Uses of GPS" page to read several short articles about how GPS is used in agriculture, farming, busing, taxi cabs, photography, emergency response, fishing, fleet management, tracking kids and pets, law enforcement, sports and science field work.
# posted by MapWatch @ Sunday, June 26, 2005
