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Mining the magic ‘More’ menu

By Tracy Cozzens
Managing Editor

In our redesign of the GPS World website, which coincided with our magazine redesign in November 2015, we endeavored to make the website even easier to use. Part of that effort consolidated some of our most popular features under the More dropdown menu. The little word appears at the far right of the menu row under our logo. Within it is a world of data and information to explore.

For those seeking current and historical data on the satellites in the various GNSS constellations, we have a full Almanac, which we update at least twice a year for the print magazine. If you want to stay on top of Upcoming GNSS Satellites Launches, we provide a handy table that is updated frequently by the one and only Richard Langley, our GNSS guru. Richard also oversees the numerous and informative Innovation columns, all of which are available under the Innovation tab — right there under More.

Our most current issue can be accessed through the words Digital Edition at the bottom of the page. Or, again under More, go to Magazine Archive for a full collection of every digital issue that reaches back a decade to 2005.

Other great resources under More are our annual Receiver Survey and Antenna Survey. Both of these products are time intensive to produce, pulling together data and specs from almost 100 companies in an effort to provide a full picture of the products available and their capabilities.

Similarly, the Buyers Guide link will take you to a special section on our website, allowing you to search manufacturers by product category and subcategory. Our next major update of the Buyers Guide will appear in print in June, but our gathering of the data now takes place year round as companies sign up to take part. If your company isn’t in our Buyers Guide, click on the “Add My Listing” link in the top right corner of the Buyers Guide page.

March 30, 2016
GPS World unveils new look for magazine, website

GPS World‘s new logo

CLEVELAND, Ohio — November 18, 2015 — GPS World relaunched this week with a redesigned print magazine and website, GPSWorld.com. Both feature a new logo, new design and widened coverage.

The GPS World brand has expanded its technical coverage to include all GNSS and Position, Navigation & Timing (PNT) solutions, trends and applications.

“We celebrated GPS World’s 25th anniversary in 2014 by embarking on the brand’s most-comprehensive research project to date,” said Kevin Stoltman, president and CEO of Cleveland-based North Coast Media, GPS World’s parent company.

The GPS World team conducted a research project and used a rebranding/repositioning expert to help better serve its industry-leading family of readers and marketing partners for decades to come.

“After months of comprehensive focus groups and surveys, we discovered readers and advertisers across the globe are fiercely loyal to GPS World,” Stoltman adds. “They love what we do, the information we offer. They just crave more of it: They want us to cover all GNSS and PNT technologies, trends and applications — and that’s exactly what we’re doing now, across all media platforms: print, digital and events.”

GPS World November 2015

The new GPS World publication also features a six-fold increase in segment-specific technical coverage — GNSS/PNT trends, obstacles and opportunities related to: Survey, Mapping, OEM, unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs), Defense, Mobile, Transportation and Machine Control. Those increase in segments also are reflected on GPSWorld.com.

“GNSS — and GPS as its leading element — remains at the core of all that we and the industry do,” said Alan Cameron, editor-in-chief and publisher of GPS World. “But it has become abundantly clear that to deliver the everywhere-everytime solution, GPS/GNSS require augmentation, back-up and alternatives. This is the promise of the future for UAVs, critical infrastructure, defense, machine control, surveying, construction and countless other fields: a consistent, highly accurate PNT solution at all times. Our new brand and expanded coverage represent our commitment to the industry in pursuit of this goal.”

The new website features a mobile-responsive design as well as new opportunities for website sponsorship with the Platinum Website Sponsorship option.

About GPS World
Founded in 1990, GPS World has an independently audited total unduplicated reach of 70,650 — delivering the largest audience in the industry. The B2B media brand publishes nine e-newsletters with a combined readership of more than 113,000, and conducts monthly technical webinars for engineers. Its website, GPSWorld.com, draws an industry-dominant 650,000 visitors and 1.5 million page views annually. (Source: June 2015 Verified Audit Circulation Annual Audit Report)

For more information on advertising or sponsorship opportunities with GPS World, please contact International Account Manager Michelle Mitchell at [email protected] or 216-363-7922.

GPS World is published by North Coast Media LLC, the largest B2B publishing company headquartered in Cleveland. NCM’s flagship brands include LP Gas, Pit & Quarry, GPS World, Pest Management Professional, Landscape Management and Golfdom. Ancillary brands include Portable Plants & Equipment, Geospatial Solutions, Athletic Turf, Truman’s Scientific Guide to Pest Management Operations and a host of other leading industry reference books.

November 19, 2015
Out in Front: Readers, marketing partners co-engineer GPS World redesign
Alan Cameron

GPS to the power of PNT. Or, as I like to think of it, GPSPNT.

We are rapidly entering — or we have already entered — the era in which we say “GPS” but we really mean so much more.
- We mean GNSS: GPS + GLONASS + Galileo + BeiDou.
- We mean all of the above plus satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS), now encompassing WAAS, EGNOS, SDCM, QZSS, IRNSS, and I don’t think we’re done yet.
- We mean all the above plus several private-sector corrections services, including but not limited to OmniStar, StarFire, Veripos, Fugro, Terrastar, Atlas, and surely more to come.
- We mean all of the above plus back-ups in the event of jamming or other interference: eLoran is a prime candidate, and there are others.
- We mean all of the above plus many technologies that can be integrated — are being integrated — with GPS/GNSS to achieve a seamless position, navigation and timing (PNT) solution: inertial and other MEMS, cell ID, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, DSRC, FM and UHF, and many more. Think of a band of the RF spectrum (or even non-RF technology as the mentioned inertial/MEMS); it’s probably on that list or soon will be.
- We mean all of the above plus many forms of software that go into making up a geographic information systems (GIS) backbone, a map-matching system, a building information model (BIM) or other application and extension of the GPS data.
They all work together. They all need each other. But they all begin with GPS. Sometime tomorrow, they will all begin with GNSS. Today, GPS is the game in town.

Saying “we mean,” I denote “we” in the loose or editorial sense: this magazine. We treat all of the technologies as ways to get to the solution: the ubiquitous, seamless PNT solution. We’ve been wondering recently if the umbrella has grown too wide for “GPS” to continue to be its label.

No matter how professionally and technically correct both you and we aim to be by employing the terms GNSS, PNT and integrated positioning technologies as appropriate, the world at large probably will continue to call all of the above “GPS.” And the label remains the easiest shorthand for all of the above. That is one of the reasons we have decided to continue calling this great magazine GPS World.

But we really mean so much more, and the pages that follow this one, and will follow in months to come, bring you so much more — fulfilling the promise of the “kicker” in our new name: GNSS, Position, Navigation, and Timing.
November 15, 2015