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. Before we get into the links, a couple of…
Housekeeping notes
- I’ve added a “More GPS News” section to the bottom of the GPS Tracklog home page, for Waypoints and other posts that don’t fit into the auto, handheld or mobile categories
- Also, I’ve set up a Facebook page for GPS Tracklog; please check it out and click to “like” us
Geocaching
- Be part of a worldwide Geocaching record attempt on Sunday 10/10/10
- The Geocaching Podcast blog discusses the new Wherigo app for the iPhone
- “Forest Defenders” bot creating fake geocache logs
GPS in the news
- My GPS made me do it: special marsh edition
- More on the North Korean GPS jamming story
Updates
GPS tracking
- Want to see what an FBI GPS tracker looks like? It’s big!
- Using Google Latitude on your computer
- NYT editorial on the constitutionality of warrantless GPS tracking
- Sex offender tracking system goes down nationwide
- Proposal to track Chicago taxis by GPS
- GPS tracking device thwarts truck thief
- Multnomah County turns to GPS tracking to fight gang violence
- A small GPS tracker with long battery life
Mobile
- Cheaters using smartphones to escape hedge mazes
- Gizmodo on the best navigation apps
Android
- The Android beta for ViewRanger is now available
- A new Google Android / GPS forum
- Review of Android MultiSensor app
- Waze releases version 2.0 for Android
The business of GPS
- Galileo 10 years late and billions over budget
- Connected navigation systems becoming more commonplace
- Garmin nuvis with NAVTEQ maps coming to India
- File under “I’ll believe it when I see it:” Mio to launch 7-inch tablet PC
Just geo
- Write up on next-generation USGS topo maps
- Would love to see this: Huge relief map of California
- Seventeenth-century maps of Siberia
- XKCD’s online communities map
Miscellany
- TomTom offers lifetime map buy-ins
- Timex Global Trainer giveaway
- DC Rainmaker on the Garmin Forerunner 210 and 410
- New Web-based satellite prediction tool
- Ways to display GPS data on a website
- Anther early (1930’s) car navigation system
- Control your GPS with hand motions
- Pocket GPS World visits DeLorme
- User-generated content comes to marine navigation
- A GPS back tracker comparison
Updated GPS reviews
I’ve updated these review and resource pages with the following links:
- Garmin Forerunner 110 — ActiveGearReview.com looks at this entry-level sportswatch
- Garmin Forerunner 310XT — The Gear Junkie (Outside Mag) reviews this triathlete’s watch
- Garmin nuvi 205W — Blogger Mathai reviews this oldie but goodie
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