Waypoints – November 11, 2006

This has been a relatively slow week on the GPS news front, but there are a few items worth looking at:

GPS Tracking

• GPS Tracking Systems has a good post on GPS tracking of sex offenders.
• Designer GPS shoes. I kid you not.
• Tracking traffic via "anonymous" cell phone data.

More on GPS and cell phones

• Google Maps on the Helio Drift. More from Engadget.
• Maps, directions and real-time traffic on your Treo. Via Digg.

Google and the clones

• Find out where super models live with Google Earth. No, it’s a heat map. Wait, that’s the same thing, isn’t it?
• Google Maps shows roads and streets for Africa.
• And there has been a Yahoo Maps upgrade for Europe.
• Ogle Earth compares Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D to Google Earth.
• There is now a GPSVisualizer plugin for Google Earth.

Garmin and TomTom

• Garmin seeks location based services opportunities.
• Even if you don’t live in Chicago, you can still check out Garmin’s first store via Engadget.
• Garmin has posted quite a few firmware updates recently, including the nuvi 660.
• Here is a TomTom Mac solution.
• Garmin won their court battle against TomTom at the Hague.

All the rest

• GPS Drawing (.com) does workshops.
• Will China bail on Galileo?
• I posted recently about GPS for golfers, but there’s another side to this story, and that’s when the golf course provides the GPS solution.
• MotionBased is running a 2 for 1 holiday special. Get MB for you AND your buddy.
• Ordnance Survey maps via Memory Map.
• Geocaching can actually be controversial.
• In last week’s Waypoints I linked to Dvorak’s "GPS is overrated," but not everyone agrees with him.