Waypoints — August 21st, 2010
August 21, 2010 by Rich Owings
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.
GPS in the news
- Get a car loan, get tracked!
- Next-generation GPS (III) satellites almost ready for manufacturing
- Tracking whooping cranes with GPS
- A little more detail on those military AEHF GPS satellites
- How far can GPS go in eliminating prisons?
- GLONASS to create lots of business opportunities
Geocaching news
- Geocaching makes the CBS Evening News
- Richard Garriott’s Haunted Geocache
- Groundspeak to use Get Satisfaction for feedback, instead of forums
Updates
- Garmin nuvi 16xx v 3.60 (North America)
- Garmin nuvi keyboards v 2.60
- Garmin nuvi map theme files v 2.20
- South Dakota’s GPS public land maps have been updated
Android
- Leszek Pawlowicz of Free Geography Tools likes Android so much that he’s started another site to focus on it; welcome AndroGeoid to the blogoshere!
- Symantec warns that this Android app secretly uploads your GPS location, but I will note that it clearly states that it uses your location; watch those permissions!
iStuff
- TeleNav"s Jungle offer college students location-aware classifieds
- Earth NC marine charts app hits iTunes; why you must be 17 to download it, I don’t know!
- iPhone Life tests the Magellan Tough Case
- Massive Navigon MobileNavigator for iPhone review
More mobile news
- Hacked smartphones could jeopardize troop safety
- Panbo looks at the Inmarsat Isatphone Pro
- TopoSports, USA claims to be the only Blackberry app to offer offline topo maps; not sure about that, but I’ll give them a link anyway!
FaceBook Places
- Facebook Places launches
- GPS Business news on Facebook Places
- All Points Blog chimes in
- Facebook Places to use Bing Maps
Just geo
- Google LatLong on Google Maps’ use of bike map contributors
- Before and after images of the Pakistani floods
- Did you enjoy the how big is the gulf oil spill mashup? Here’s another comparative geography site to play with
All the news that doesn’t fit
- Win a Garmin nuvi 3790T
- Pocket GPS World ruminates on self-defining points of interest
- Riding along with NAVTEQ
- Engadget reviews the Timex Ironman Global Trainer, which is targeting the Forerunner market
- Adam DuVander’s Map Scripting 101
book is out
Updated GPS reviews
I’ve updated these review and resource pages with the following links:
- Garmin Edge 605 and 705 – How to load tracks
- Garmin Edge 705 – ActiveGearReview.com looks at this high-end cycling GPS
- Garmin Forerunner 310XT – Review by Shay Sorrells of Biggest Loser fame
- T-Mobile Garminfone – A way to sync with iTunes; I’ve also linked to a new PCWorld review
