This paper presents accurate absolute positions from a 24 GHz Very
Long Baseline Array (VLBA) search for compact extragalactic sources in
an area where the density of known calibrators with precise
coordinates is low. The goals were to identify additional sources
suitable for use as phase calibrators for galactic sources, determine
their precise positions, and produce radio images.  In order to
achieve these goals, we developed a new software package, PIMA, for
determining group delays from wide-band data with much lower detection
limit. With the use of PIMA we have detected 327 sources
out of 489 targets observed in three 24 hour VLBA experiments.  Among
the 327 detected objects, 176 are within 10 degrees of the Galactic
plane. This VGaPS catalogue of source positions, images, plots of
correlated flux density versus projected baseline length, contour plots, 
as well as weighted CLEAN images and calibrated visibility data in FITS 
format, is available on the Web at http://astrogeo.org/vgaps .
Approximately one half of objects from the 24 GHz catalogue were observed
at dual band 8.6 GHz and 2.3 GHz experiments. Position differences at
24 GHz versus 8.6/2.3 GHz for all but two objects on average are strictly 
within reported uncertainties. We found that for two objects with 
complex structure positions at different frequencies correspond 
to different components of a source.