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.
Garmin
- It’s not too late to put a Halloween vehicle icon on your Garmin; via GPS Lodge
- Why you might see 3,000 point tracklog archives on your Garmin handheld
- GPS Lodge on the BaseCamp 3.1.1 update
- Remember the BuzzBomb mount? Now available for the GPSMAP 78 series (scroll down for pics)
- I’m not sure if these are new or just updated, but here are New Mexico and Virginia topos for Garmin receivers
- A positive report on Birds Eye Select, but see my follow up comment
- New from Garmin — City Navigator Eastern Africa NT
More Handheld / Backcountry GPS news
- Magellan eXplorist 610 first impressions from member of the Groundspeak Forums
- The Trail Tech Voyager GPS is a specialized unit for off-roaders
- DeLorme partners with snowboarder Seth Wescott for promotion
Geocaching
- Looks like geocaching.com has, or will soon have, a Windows Phone 7 app
- Interesting article on OpenCaching and other alternatives to geocaching.com
Garmin chirp
- Garmin chirp manual; via @GPSFix
- Wahoo Fitness pledges support for Garmin chirp
Mobile
- GPS Review on why the Nuvifone failed; see the comments section for my take and that of others
- TomTom will not be providing HTC with navigation (just maps); Route 66 is the nav engine
Android
- Google Maps 4.6 hits Android Market
- GPS averaging app for Android
GPS Tracking
- With so many sex offenders cutting off GPS trackers, I wonder how long it will be till they come up with a way to permanently attach them
- Counter-point: A sane voice on sex offender fears and app makers that prey on them
- Neat tracking technology stores coordinates on audio recordings for wildlife transects
- RunKeeper improves Garmin data import process; via @dcrainmakerblog
- Introducing RunKeeper Races Live ; also via @dcrainmakerblog
- GPS fuel tracking
- Another editorial saying police GPS tracking is an invasion of privacy
The business of GPS
- Google Maps Navigation is one year old; the best part of the article is the “what the experts think” section
- Handset navigation grows, but not as fast as expected
- Russians to levy customs duty on GPS-only, non-GLONASS receivers
- In-dash navigation growing at 20% per year
- And its not because it costs $185 to update an in-dash nav unit!; via All Points Blog
- TeleNav has a good quarter
Just geo
- 237 new or updated Canadian topos
- A Lego map of Europe
- Licensing fracas for Bing’s BirdsEye imagery provider
- Bing Maps’ new RouteSavvy optimizer
- Google Maps art
- Create your own Google Maps envelope
- U.S. college degrees by county
All the news that doesn’t fit
- The Consumerist asks “Should The Map Updates I Paid For Overfill My GPS’s Memory?” My answer: No, and whatever needs to happen should be automatic and easy (sadly, that isn’t happening)
- Driverless electric van cruises 8,000 miles from Italy to China
- Video games can improve navigational skills
- The Escort could be the GPS for speedsters
- Meanwhile, 89% of motorists reduce speeding with a device warning them if they are above the limit; I doubt that it would be that high in the US!
- Live traffic cams coming to your cell phone or GPS?
- But this observer thinks distracted driving concerns are causing the idea to lose traction
- 245,000 Germans said “Nein” to Google Street View
- Do you really want MTV’s Daria as your GPS navigator’s voice
- As an avid outdoorsman, I can’t help posting this; I hope things don’t get so bad that other countries (besides the UK) consider selling off public lands
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