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Johnny Appleseed GPS Business Profile

Johnny Appleseed GPS

About Johnny Appleseed GPS
& GPS in General

GPS is making a big impact. From locations of endangered species, to logging the positions of roads and access, and scientific farm and crop applications. The largest economic impact is through the use of in-car navigation, with savings in fuel and time. Recreational pursuits such as camping and boating are big winners with GPS. Aviators find GPS a useful back up for route planning and log books.

Our Job

To supply useful GPS systems and associated devices, and advice on such, to all users and potential users of the Global Positioning System.

The owners of the business are Kimball and Colleen Thurlow*. Kimball has many years experience in providing surveyors, scientists, earth-movers and mining personnel with state of the art surveying and positioning instruments. Corporate, quantity and GIS products are handled at our head office in Rocklea, Brisbane, at 07 3717 8555.

This sort of experience, means we can professionally assist all who may require GPS for various applications.

We specialize in Garmin, TomTom, Navman, and Magellan GPS and in-car navigation, Polar Heart Rate Monitors, Nike fitness, Trimble, and Getac rugged computers and Omnistar and Hemisphere GPS and DGPS for GIS, Haicom GPS for PDA, and PC software to aid in the use of GPS.

We have a service centre for repairs to Juniper Systems, Trimble and Handheld products at our Rocklea office.

Because users are outdoor, we assist with any other devices and accessories that will support the use of this equipment in the field, in the air, or on the water.

We are a Qld Government Accredited Supplier - GITC Q 2522.

* As owners of GPS Express Australia Pty Ltd ACN 104 263 498


Johnny Applseed GPS

What can GPS do?

  • A GPS receiver (colloquially known as a GPS) can record in memory, your current location (and thousands of other locations) in latitude and longitude, or in map grid format.
  • Each location can be given a name or number, and time and date (automatically if you wish).
  • It can then calculate distance and bearing between any of those logged locations (called waypoints in GPS-speak).
  • It can guide you from and to any location, with a graphic highway symbol, and tell you if you veer off path. In-car navigators add spoken voice guidance, and pre-loaded destinations such as streets, banks, Post Offices, Police Stations and shopping centres.
  • It can automatically log your journey, and then guide you back over the same trail. These logs can then calculate areas, and be saved in separate files.
  • It can be used as a hand-held, in a boat, or can be mounted under the windscreen of a car, or within the panel of a boat control station for practical route guidance. It can be hooked up to a 12 or 24 volt supply.
  • It can store locations in routes, and the whole route can be retained and recalled.
  • You can download all of this information to a computer, and backload it to any other GPS at any time.
  • In use, the GPS will act as a compass, indicating your heading and bearing (true north or magnetic), and will display your speed very accurately.
  • Many GPS units also show sunrise and sunset, battery strength, satellite positions and signal strengths, DOP (a measure of precision), graphic displays and feature mapping of waterways, roads, rivers and railways or even display satellite imagery of where you are.
For a more in depth review of what GPS is, and can do, visit the What is GPS pages.
 


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