Waypoints — February 6th, 2010

This has been a crazy week due to the new design, and I apologize if I lost attribution info for any of the items below.

Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of GPS related odds and ends.

Garmin

• Is the Garmin Oregon more popular than the 60CSx? So far the vote is 15 to 4.
• How to change which map is displayed on your Garmin GPS
• Garmin Connect to fitness types: You’ve got multiple things to keep updated
• Northern Arizona topo overlay (Garmin compatible map)

Maps

• MTB Guru moves to MyTopo maps, and with good reason
• GIS Data For US National Parks And Monuments – Nice; it was a breeze to get a .shp file for trails of the nearby Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Mobile

• Navionics Mobile Marine iPhone app rolls out improvements
• When people are converting Garmin vector maps to raster for Android it tells me there is a need for better Android map applications
• Haven’t seen Google Maps for Mobile v3.4 on my Droid yet
• Oopsie! Google Latitude lost some users
• VZ Nav adds Facebook, Roadside Assistance, Traffic Crowdsourcing
• BusinessWeek: GPS Location Apps Have Limited Appeal
• But here’s the great quote from it

The business of GPS

• Nokia kills alterative free nav provider Nav4All?
• A different take on the Nav4All/NAVTEQ/Nokia mess
• Is NAVTEQ asking for exclusivity ? Via @gpsreview
• Apisphere, who makes the Geomate.jr, raises $4.6 million; Via GPS Obsessed

Mio

• Think twice before updating those Mio maps
• Here’s why they are dumping iGo

GPS in the news

• Tracking earthquakes with GPS
• Canadian GPS regulations not moving forward; includes interesting discussion on how long it takes to program a GPS receiver

Miscellany

• All about geolocation in HTML5; Via The Map Room
• TeleNav is hiring
• Hey geocachers — Travel Bug Rescue!
• Satellites – who owns what and what works; via@GeoEntelechy
• Magellan releases CA & FL amusement park maps
• Tripmaster and Offroad Navigator plugins for TomTom devices