Waypoints — September 5th, 2010
September 5, 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
- GPS for motorcoach using 40" HDTV as monitor
- Supreme Court, Congress need new rules for GPS searches
- Having home address entered helps with return of stolen GPS
- Miss Manners: Don’t be rude to the GPS lady
- Russians launch three GLONASS satellites
Garmin
- Monday (Labor Day) is the last day to take advantage of this great deal on the Garmin Oregon 450
- Win a Garmin Forerunner 310XT
- Montana Trails v3
- I don’t think there’s any big news here, but Garmin’s TrailTech blog has a new post on map selection improvements
- The nuvi 855 joins Garmin’s discontinued list
TomTom
- TomTom looking at social network location features
- TomTom to power navigation in Sony Xplod units
- New version of TomTom app for iPhone coming
Updates
- Garmin BaseCamp v 3.0.6
- Garmin Dakota v 3.30
- Garmin GPSMAP 62 / 78 v 2.50
- Garmin nuvi 12xx v 4.60
- Garmin nuvi 13xx / 14xx v 4.60
- Garmin Oregon x00 v 3.90
- Garmin Oregon x50 v 3.80
The business of GPS
- NAVTEQ Natural Guidance will tell you to “turn right after the yellow shop”
- Western Europe PND Sales Revenue Down 21% in 1H 2010
- 90 million smartphones forecast to ship with free navigation in 2014 vs 39 million PNDs & OEM systems; via @gayotrguy2
- And yet there are still companies getting into the PND arena
- RF MEMS to improve performance of handset antennas; I wonder how this might impact GPS
- TeleNav-powered MyFord Touch Debuts in Ford Edge & Lincoln MKX
- And I thought I was verbose – Mike Dobson on TomTom, TeleAtlas and MapShare
Android
- Motorola Defy – a ruggedized Android phone
- How Quickly Does GPS Use Kill The Battery On An Android Phone?
- Dealing with Android battery limitations
- Bing Maps Goes Native On Android
- Garmin-Asus A10 Coming Soon (to a Country Not Near You)
- The problem with Android screenshots; via @phonedog_john
Just geo
- Nice satellite image of three tropical storms
- Burning Man 2010 in Google Earth
- Australian family discovers squatters on their Croatian property via Google Earth; via Ogle Earth
- Map Scripting on Geocoding
Miscellany
- Share your geocache finds on Twitter (you must be logged in for link to work)
- Remember the folks biking Alaska’s Lost Coast with the DeLorme PN-60w + SPOT? They’ve posted a couple of batches of pics
- National Geographic Adventure reviews EveryTrail
- CoPilot upgrades traffic on its nav app
- Wikitude Drive brings AR navigation closer
- Clickable POIs and brand icons come to Google Maps
- Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden wants to modernize cell phone laws
Updated GPS reviews
I’ve updated these review and resource pages with the following links:
- Garmin Forerunner 110 – Ryan Hall on this entry level sportswatch
- Garmin Forerunner 305 – reviewed by a Sardonic Catholic Dad
- Garmin Forerunner 310XT – TTahko.net compares it to the Forerunner 405CX
- Garmin GPSMAP 62s – GPS Information reviews this new unit and the 78sc too
- Garmin nuvi 3790T — Websneak reviews this high-end nuvi; CNET reviews it too
- Geomate.jr – A YouTube video demo of this dedicated geocaching unit





