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.
DeLorme inReach
- DeLorme inReach demos and details
- Manual & pics hit the FCC website (expect a big ole scary security certificate warning if you click this though; go figure!)
Garmin
- The Montana series gets some nice geocaching improvements (promised soon for other models)
- Driving recorder and rear camera add-ons for nuvi 2xx5 series (in India)
- Garmin Connect rolls out Courses; with no topo maps and trails available, they seem best suited for road bikers and runners
- A Courses FAQ
- The full Garmin Connect FAQ
- Ouch, better tether that Rino!
- Garmin’s getting third-party apps/functionality in aviation and biking; can handhelds and auto units be that far behind?
- Garmin steering folks to GpsGate (did Garmin buy this company?)
- Afghanistan Streets Garmin Compatible Map
LightSquared
- Thought this was political before? Daily Beast claims that White House tried to influence testimony
- And Fox News is all over it; via @GPSGIS_Eric
- White House says they gave Lightsquared plenty of grief over GPS
- Republicans Want Records of Philip Falcone White House Contacts
- Coalition to Save Our GPS statement
- LightSquared’s news release announcing their solution
- GPS World has a chart with frequency breakdown
- And apparently there’s no testing schedule for precision GPS
- The Save Our GPS Coalition response
Satellite news
- First two Galileo sats scheduled for October 20 launch
- Russia launching 5 more GLONASS birds this year
- Two US satellite series declassified
Updates
Geocaching
- Does log length really indicate the end of geocaching? Wow, and I don’t even log my finds!
- Geocachers NYC = geocaching + music; via @TrimbleOutdoors
GPS tracking
- OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location For Profit
- The Constitution Project says a warrant should be required for GPS tracking lasting over 24 hours
- Court rules GPS monitoring of convicted sex offender unlawful
- GTX Corp starts shipping GPS shoes
- Wristwatch for Alzheimer´s patients coming to US for a cool $1,425; good thing there’s no monthly charges or contract
- Study shows wildlife shy away from humans; duh!
- Swedish preschools use GPS to avoid losing kids
GPS in the news
- Government spending can’t generate jobs, huh? Don’t tell the GPS industry that
- Should NextGen GPS air-traffic control go private?
- Thief hid stolen GPS in chip bag
- Researchers Design GPS-Enabled Garment for Patient Biomonitoring
The business of GPS
- Garmin buys South African distributor and Garmap
- Magellan is hiring
- Nuance now powering Waze text to speech; via @AndroidGuys
All the news that doesn’t fit
- Remember the TomTom GO LIVE 1535 M we wrote about last month? There will also be cheaper GO LIVE 1530 with US maps only, and probably models with and without lifetime map updates
- Bracketron MobileDock – Universal Vent Mount; hmm, I may have to try one of these
- Magellan ToughCase – End Of Term Report
- 1930’s Connecticut and New Jersey aerial imagery on Google Maps; Via Google Maps Mania
- California Supreme Court to Rule on Sierra Club/Orange County GIS data Case
- Zeal Optics unveils new Z3 GPS goggles
GPS deals
These are some bargains we’re currently tracking at our GPS deals site:
- TomTom VIA 1505M for $109.95
- TomTom ONE 130-S for just $59.99
- Garmin GPSMAP 62s on sale for $329.99
- Garmin nuvi 2350LMT for $157
- Garmin nuvi 1390LMT for $149.95
- TomTom VIA 1405TM on sale for $134.95
- Garmin nuvi 1250 for $79.95
- Geomate.jr geocaching unit for $49.99
- Transatlantic Garmin nuvi 2370LT for $219.95
- $50 Garmin Oregon rebate
Updated GPS reviews
I’ve updated these review and resource pages with the following links:
- Magellan RoadMate 9055 – The Globe and Mail reviews this auto unit






Hey Rich….. clicking on the small word Waypoints takes you all the way back to 2007…… give it a try!!!
Crap! Well, I’ve fixed it for this and future editions. Not sure I’ll go back and fix it for previous ones. It seems to be some sort of redirection error. I need to go back and see how it was done, but there was a category conflict when I moved over from TypePad to WordPress. Regardless, thanks for letting me know!