Waypoints – Special back to work edition

After a crazy Black Friday and a slacker Cyber Monday, here’s a link round up for your reading pleasure. Just to ease you back into the work week.

Garmin

• The Garmin garage has vehicle icons for your nuvi, zumo or StreetPilot c series.
• Win a Garmin nuvi 260.
• Garmin has posted firmware updates for the eTrex H and StreetPilot 2820.
• There is a Garmin nuvi 2xx firmware update available via WebUpdater only. Thanks for the tip Zane!
• Garmin has updated MapSource to version 6.13.5.
• Buy a Volvo; get a Garmin nuvi 760.

TomTom

• TomTom has posted NavCore updates that bring Map Share to all ONE’s and the GO 300, 500, 700, 310, 510 and 710. I’ve noted this on my new TomTom comparison chart.
• A review of the TomTom Eclipse.

GPS Hardware

• Pallets full of Dash Express units – teaser photos.
• Another raster imagery GPS coming to the U.S.?
• A blog with a strong emphasis on GPS data loggers. Via The Map Room.
• Another GPS navigation device company for India. Via Digg.

POIs

• POI Friend is a site that allows users to create and share POIs, which can be rated and commented on by others.
• TellMeWhere.com is a user-generated POI site.
• I’ve added these to my custom POI resource page.

Maps and data

• International maps for your Mio are said to be coming very soon.
• The Chicago Field Museum’s Festival of Maps is available online. Via The Map Room.
• Florida GIS data. Via BlinkGeo.

Geocoding photos

• A review of the Gisteq Photo Trackr.
• Flickr releases new geographical features. Via BlinkGeo.

GPS and cell phones

• Cell phone navigation is starting to see some pricing pressure.
• GPShopper / Slifter wins the Tele Atlas Maps in Apps contest.
• The Nokia Sports Tracker Beta. Via Slashgeo.

Military madness

• China has GPS-jamming vans.
• A look at a role played by GPS in military aviator training.

The business of mapping data

• Nokia targets pedestrians with their NAVTEQ acquisition. Via SlashGeo.
• An analysis of the Garmin / Tele Atlas non-deal, saying that Garmin won.
• The Street doesn’t think so. Via All Points Blog.
• AND to release U.S. maps in 2009. Analysis by GPS Business News (free registration required).

Virtual globes

• Google allows corrections to Google Maps. Via BlinkGeo. More from the Google LatLong blog.
• Virtual Earth gets a huge update. Via SlashGeo.
• I love having a mouse with a scroll wheel. Its always worth playing around
  with your favorite mapping software to see what you can do with it.
  Here’s a reminder that you can tilt or rotate the view in Google Earth
  with your mouse wheel.
• Altitude and terrain profiles in Google Maps.
• A Google reverse geocoder.

Miscellany

• RouteBuddy 1.5 (for Mac) has been released.
• How to upload multiple geocaches to your GPS using EasyGPS. Via Digg.
• An envelope-sized GPS tracker for the US Postal Service.
• Radar gun beats GPS.
• Teen rescued thanks to GPS.
• In a never ending saga, Galileo funding is back on.

Updated GPS reviews

• Garmin nuvi 760 review – I’ve posted customer reviews at Amazon. Just remember that GPSNow still has the best deal.
• Magellan Maestro 3140 review – I’ve linked to a review posted by Scott of GPS Lodge.
• Mio C220 review – BCCHardware covers this budget unit.
• TomTom GO 720 review – YourWorldWired posted a brief review.
• TomTom ONE 3rd edition review – Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has posted a review. Here’s a review of the TomTom ONE Europe v3.
• TomTom ONE XL review – GeekZone has posted a review of this unit.
• TomTom reviews – I’ve added a link to the TomTom product advisor to all of my TomTom auto GPS reviews.

New GPS reviews posted this week

• Navigon 2100 review
• TomTom ONE 3rd edition review