GPS tracking firm teams with Google earth for emergency logistics


location based services

Telespial Systems will team with Google Earth and Google, Inc (which broke $500 today!) to provide its Trackstick Pro GPS data logger, which continuously records its location (ah, another real-time, location-based tool...) to help government agencies manage and deploy their assets on a day-to-day basis, and especially during disasters and reconstruction. The Pro can either be powered by the bundled cigarette lighter plug, or can be hard wired into any vehicle. Combined with Google Earth, it can be used with police, street cleaning, EMS vehicle, or, according to the company, with "busses" (sic. Are buss vehicles rolling makeout lounges? Just asking...).
It records date, time, location, speed, direction, altitude, signal strength and temperature, and the data can be dumped immediately, via the USB cable. Telespial says the Trackstick is the only GPS device that's fully integrated with Google Earth.