I`ve heard Mike Wolf mention twice, once in a TCA Netvision Video (which I can`t find again) and once in a Youtube Video called "introduction to dcs hosted by mike wolf of mth at York 2014", where he mentions, when explaining the Features of the DCS Remote`s AUX Button at the 24:40 mark, future uses including "GPS". Has anyone on the Forum here heard any further information about this?.
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DCS going to run the car's navigation? I can see it now...driving on Main Street presently, "car not on Main Street". "Check road".
I made a request of Notch-6 to ask MTH about the "GPS" statement at his interview on Wednesday April 15th and he said he would ask, but that the mention Mike made was so brief that they may not be willing to share anything at this time.
Here`s a Link to the Mike Wolf AUX Button and GPS Video with the mention at the 24:40 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDdluZVqPx4
Mike simply said the first thing that came to mind. Put no stock in it as anything even remotely real
DCS has no capability for GPS, since it lacks a GPS receiver. Further, it also has no need for knowing where your layout is on planet Earth. You already (I hope) know where on the planet you are. 
In the TCA Museum Video Mike described the use as being a way for a large Layouts to have Train Engines and Consists keep track of where each one is and stop and start to be able to avoid collisions, along with other Features. Of course there are many different ways to accomplish any one Feature or idea, but I find Mikes idea interesting.
IMHO, Mike may have used the common term GPS to suggest to those attending, the possibility of a LPS (layout positioning system). Using sensors like those now available from Lionel, the DCS system could, at some point, sense and react to where trains are on the layout.
Not quite 'global', but within the confines of a layout, it would serve as a GPS.
Who would have thunk 20 years ago, that half the stuff in a DCS system would be available?
Ed
In the TCA Museum Video Mike described the use as being a way for a large Layouts to have Train Engines and Consists keep track of where each one is and stop and start to be able to avoid collisions
That's already incorporated in the Hikel O Gauge PC-based layout control program for DCS and TMCC.
Barry,
Gomez is not going to like this GPS tracking stuff what so ever!
Why else would a grown man run trains! If Jones was my wife and she wanted to see trains wreck, Gomez was absolutely correct.
PCRR/Dave
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