Waypoints — August 7th, 2010
August 7, 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
- US Court of Appeals rejects warrantless GPS tracking
- EMT crews in NYC don’t have GPS
- A special family edition of “My GPS made me do it,” from the Australian outback
- Talk about a heads-up display — GPS navigation in your glasses!
- The WSJ on GPS stalking by cellphone
- China launches its fifth Beidou satellite
TomTom
- TomTom and Localeze announce deal; looking forward to hearing from TomTom which devices will benefit
- More Star Wars voices available for TomTom devices
- TomTom to re-enable third-party POI alerts
Handheld GPS
- A short hands-on with the DeLorme PN60w + SPOT
- Worth 13 seconds: Coolest geocache ever? Via @GoGeocaching
- Garmin GPSMAP 62 series manual finally makes it to the Web
Firmware updates
Mobile
- Web-based mapping sites losing traffic, most likely to mobile maps
- Pocket GPS World reviews the Magellan ToughCase
Just geo
- Finding illegal pools with Google Earth
- Bing adds OpenStreetMap
- Now you can check out the weather in Google Earth
All the news that doesn’t fit
- DC Rainmaker is giving away a Garmin Forerunner 310XT
- Creater of TopoFusion, Scott Morris, interviewed by Outside Magazine
- Position-based quantum cryptography; via @gatorguy2
Updated GPS Reviews
I’ve updated these review and resource pages with the following links:
- Garmin Forerunner 405 — Dave Writes about this runner’s favorite
- Garmin nuvi 1350 – reviewed by a Malaysian blogger
