Terminology

Assisted GPS, sometimes known as Augmented GPS (aGPS/A-GPS) is the technology of improving the performance for obtaining initial location data from satellites. The initial startup performance of obtaining a satellite signal lock is often referred...

Geocoding, or address geocoding, is the conversion process of text-based location description, and returning latitude & longitude co-ordinates. The most common text-based location description would be an address. An example of the geocoding...

A geozone or geofence is a virtual perimeter configured for a real-world geographic area Geozones are primarily created within mapping applications by setting boundaries by using either of the following: GPS Co-ordinates Street addresses The...

Reverse geocoding is taking a latitude and longitude location and converting it to a human readable address, or location name. This allows the identification of nearby road addresses, points of interest, parks and other various locations. Addresses...

Time to First Fix (commonly abbreviated to TTFF) is the process of time in which it takes a GPS enabled device to obtain signal from enough satellites to determine accurately its location. A GPS receiver must have three sets of data before it can...