Using 300 SPOT Satellite Communicators to track Gulf of Mexico currents
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. This week’s image is from a post on using 300 SPOT satellite communicators to track Gulf currents near the Deepwater Horizon site.
Pre-Black Friday GPS deals
- Looks like Garmin has dropped their minimum advertised pricing on 2012 nuvi Advanced and Prestige models, resulting in $20-30 price drops; here are Amazon links for the most popular ones – 2495LMT
, 2595LMT
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; GPS City has the deals too, with free two-day shipping on many
Here’s a great deal on a nuvi friction mount and 4.3″ case– $14.99
- In case you missed it, REI.com has a great handheld and sportswatch sale going on
My GPS made me do it
- Driver blames GPS for leading him wrong way on highway
- GPS causing problems; sending trucks to neighborhood
Geocaching
- You’ve heard of heli-skiing and heli-boarding – how about helicopter geocaching?
- Save the Date for Geocaching: 12-12-12
- Geocaching checks
- Geocaching in One Word
- Interview with author of First to Find
GPS tracking
- Husband uses GPS to track teacher having sex with teen
- Is that a GPS antenna in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? (GPS tracking trousers); via Pocket GPS World
- License Plate Geo-Tracking: We Know Where You’ve Been
- GPS tracking leads police to pharmacy robbers
- GPS ankle monitor links suspect to robberies
- Many paroled sex offenders removing GPS tracking devices
- Tracking crabs with GPS
- International Cycling Union reconsiders GPS tracking and on-bike cameras
- Rescues highlight value of personal locator beacons
- Ocean Signal RescueME, best PLB yet?
- Leo GPS watch locates your child in an emergency
- ACLU Asks Appeals Court to Require a Warrant for GPS Tracking
Updates
- Garmin updates this week: Communicator plugin, nuvi 465T, zumo 350
- Magellan Active API v 1.2
- Magellan Active Website v 1.3
TomTom
- TomTom makes Speed Cameras for iPhone app free for one year, but it only works for European countries
- GPS Business News says they know why its free
- TomTom Launches SDK for LBS Apps – What software developers get if they sign up
Garmin
- Garmin Navigator for Android coming soon?
- SnowRanger North America maps get new ski resorts
- A GizzMoVest Garmin Alpha
case has been released
Going mobile
- Google rolls out their own location-based game; more info here
- Native iOS Google Maps app being tested externally with turn-by-turn navigation baked in (like that will ever get approved!)
- Ultimate Drive App Helps You Find Fun Road Routes (iOS)
- Nokia Here pushes maps to Android and iOS
- Taxi service apps could be hit by a proposed ban on GPS metering
- Google bags patent for directions based on cell coverage
- MirrorLink to Open the Door to App Developers
The business of GPS
- Tablets and Cameras to Be Major GPS Markets by 2017
- GPS makers look to in-car navigation for respite
- Nokia’s slew of announcements
Just geo
- Election density map shows a state’s true colors; via Slashgeo.org
- 50-state travelers form exclusive club
- Shenandoah National Park to outlaw visits to rock outcrops and peaks?
- Google and Landsat Create Time-Lapse Videos Showing 40 Years of Environmental Destruction in the Amazon
- Carolina Bay of the Day; via Google Earth Blog
- Were Carolina bays created by the Saginaw Impact Manifold?
All the news that doesn’t fit
- Designer of GLONASS Fired amid Embezzlement Scandal
- German police catch speeder with over the top mobile office
- A GPS tour in a state parks brochure (PDF); via Sam Penrod
- Remember my note about Eric Larsen biking to the South Pole? Here’s a video preview
- YouTube humor - Speed enforced by aircraft; via @PocketGPSWorld
Updated GPS reviews
I’ve updated these review and resource pages with the following links:
- Garmin fenix – Clever Training offers this brief review
- Garmin Forerunner 10 – CarlyBananas reviews this new entry level sportswatch
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