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GPS

September 2026

  • Adrian Chiles

    double quotation markLocation-tracking apps have turned me into a gibbering wreck – but I just can’t look away

    Adrian Chiles
    When my loved ones are on the move, I can’t rest until I know they’ve got from A to B safely. How I long for the ignorance of the olden days, writes Adrian Chiles

February 2026

  • Amazon van on an expanse of mudflats

    Abandon shipment: how an Amazon van got marooned on the UK’s ‘most dangerous path’

  • Gladys West and Sam Smith look over data from the Global Positioning System, which Gladys helped develop at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, VA in 1985 credit:U.S. Navy. Image shot 1985. Exact date unknown.3DH3457 Gladys West and Sam Smith look over data from the Global Positioning System, which Gladys helped develop at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, VA in 1985 credit:U.S. Navy. Image shot 1985. Exact date unknown.

    Gladys West obituary

January 2026

  • A golden eagle

    The age of extinction
    ‘We thought they would ignore us’: how humans are changing the way raptors behave

    Experts call for tighter regulation as GPS tracking reveals how people’s behaviour affects the lives of some of the world’s largest birds

May 2025

  • Terry Rosoman’s GPS drawing of a penis and testicles

    ‘The giant penis took shape easily, as I passed through a village called Three Cocks’: meet the artist athletes drawing with GPS

  • A hiker and their dog walking towards the mountain summit of High Spy from Maiden Moor at sunrise on the Derwent Fells in the Lake District, UK

    Those who prefer a map to an app abound in the age of GPS

April 2025

  • John Harris

    double quotation markWe now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost

    John Harris
    The blue dot of GPS has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder mountain rescuers are being called out so often, asks Guardian columnist John Harris

July 2024

  • People walk beneath clocks that are part of the Six Public Clocks artwork

    Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds

    Melting of ice is slowing planet’s rotation and could disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS

June 2024

  • Dr Joseph Cotter with the UK's first commercial quantum accelerometer for navigation.

    ‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS

    Subatomic instrument will be able to accurately pinpoint locations under ground and under water where satellite signals cannot reach

April 2024

  • EasyJet and Ryanair aircraft at Luton airport in 2020

    Thousands of flights to and from Europe affected by suspected Russian jamming

    About 46,000 aircraft have logged GPS problems over Baltic Sea since August, says report

March 2024

  • Polish deputy prime minister and minister of national defense Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz (l), Grant Shapps (c) and 1st deputy commander general of the armed forces Marek Sokolowski at the Orzysz training ground in north-east Poland

    Russia suspected of jamming GPS signal on aircraft carrying Grant Shapps

  • Garmin Forerunner 165 review showing the watch face on a wrist in sunlight.

    Forerunner 165 review: Garmin’s budget OLED running watch

May 2023

  • Nobska Point Lighthouse, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

    US to give away free lighthouses as GPS makes them unnecessary

    Program aims to preserve the properties, most of which are more than a century old, to anyone willing to preserve them

February 2023

  • An Ordnance Survey outdoor leisure map of Loch Torridon in the Scottish Highlands

    Signs of the times: Ordnance Survey to consult on new map symbols

    Mapmaker suggests symbols could be added for bike repair shops, dog waste bins or river access points

October 2022

  • ByteDance logo

    TikTok denies report data used to track or ‘target’ US citizens

    Chinese-based team at parent company ByteDance alleged by Forbes to have planned to collect location information

March 2022

  • People enjoy the sunshine on Wimbledon Common in London

    Weatherwatch
    Space agency launches crowdsourced weather forecasting project

    ESA project aims to harness power of smartphones to match atmospheric conditions to weather on ground

February 2022

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    double quotation markForget state surveillance. Our tracking devices are now doing the same job

    John Naughton
    While gizmos such as Apple’s AirTags are undeniably useful, they carry with them the danger of privacy abuses

March 2021

  • A view of the interior of HMP Pentonville

    Domestic abusers to get GPS tags on release from jail in London

    Pilot scheme announced by mayor’s office targets up to 200 perpetrators of abuse-related offences

January 2021

  • Guardian Australia gives GPS art a go

    GPS art: the hybrid activity mixing creativity and fitness – video

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  • GPS art or GPX - is a hybrid fitness and artistic activity where your movements, traced by GPS signals, become the paint on a city-sized canvas.

    'Human etch-a sketch': GPS art, burbing and my attempt to recreate the Guardian masthead

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