Waypoints – April 29, 2006

Hardware

• Talk about all-in-one. Here’s a PDA that really does it all – GPS, cell phone, digital camera and Windows Mobile 5.0.
• Brunswick Corporation is selling their unit that manufactures GPS, which means that Navman is going on the block.
• A head-to-head comparison of Bones in Motion with the Garmin Forerunner 205.

Miscellaneous

• Appalachian Trail shelter waypoints in GPX and MXF format, along with other useful links.
• GPS Review makes a case for GPS resulting in safer driving and offers some tips to keep you focused on the road.
• The mainstream media still doesn’t get the difference between GIS and GPS.
• Articles on the roadblocks to LBS acceptance in the U.S. and Europe.

Cool maps

• Gas prices mapped by U.S. counties. Feel the pain. Via Very Spatial.
• For our friends down under, a look at 400 years of maps of Oz.
• A mapping service that lets you input a zip code to view campaign contributions to the two major parties in the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, though it is currently down due to being Dugg. Via Very Spatial.

Geo-Google

• GEtrax opens OziExplorer and GPX files as KML files. It will also output Garmin track files to a KML file. Via Ogle Earth.
• How to easily convert a Google Maps URL to a KML file.
• Lots of improvements to Google Maps and Google Earth last week, covered here and here.

From Russia with love

• An article on GPS in Russia.
• Free Russian GIS maps.

Cellphones and GPS

• Dale DePriest defines A-GPS.
• An overview of cellphone GPS.

The military and GPS

• Janes provides some technical details and historical info on the GPS constellation.
• An article on the military’s use of GPS to guide air-drops.

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