Waypoints — July 31st, 2010
July 31, 2010 by Rich Owings
Um, I’d call this a slow news week. I’d say that next week will get better with Outdoor Retailer, but I’m not expecting to hear much new. Anyway, in case you just stumbled across this, Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get many of these stories as they break, follow me on Twitter.
Backcountry GPS
- Though designed for Garmin units, you can put NorthWest Trails on your DeLorme
- Moagu 2.0 released (brings raster maps to older Garmin units)
Updates
- Garmin GPS chipset type M HotFix data v 2.60
- Garmin GPSMAP 62/78 v 2.40
- Garmin nuvi 465T v 3.30
- Garmin nuvi 5xx v 3.90
- Garmin nuvi 37xx touchscreen module v 1.16
GPS in the news
- Arthur C Clarke predicts GPS in 1956
- U.S. and the EU to collaborate on global navigation satellite systems
- Novel South Korea pilot project outfits elementary students with “GPS beepers“
- How to make your GPS less distracting
- Don’t commit a burglary while wearing a GPS bracelet
- GPS and phones to deliver oncoming train warnings
The business of GPS
- Interesting tale from WSJ on a Chinese firm’s efforts to market their friction mounts in the US
- Meanwhile, TomTom Launches PNDs In China; via @gatorguy2
- Garmin-Transitions brings in Owen Wilson
- INRIX boosts traffic data throughput with TPEG Connect
Mobile
- Google Maps for Android gets yet another update
- Over 1/3 of smartphones to have gyroscopes by 2014
Just geo
- Interactive timeline shows milestones in cartography; via @GeoEntelechy
- Aquatic dead zones
