This week in GPS is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends, from GPS Tracklog and other places around the Web. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. I’m leading this week with a promo of the Magellan SmartGPS; definitely interesting but I’d say it also creates quite the distracted driving hazard. On to the links!…
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week, another busy one thanks to CES:
- Garmin nuvi 2455LMT for $140.25 shipped
- Motorcycle-friendly TomTom RIDER 5 clears FCC
- CES 2013 – Hands on, videos & reactions
- CES 2013 news briefs
- New Garmin units get shipping dates
- Garmin Oregon 600 series gets GLONASS, customizable buttons, 8MP camera, battery options & multi-touch display
- Magellan SmartGPS brings connectivity via your smartphone
- Garmin nuvi 2013 line brings 7″ screens, Real Directions, active lane guidance & voice-activated traffic
- Connected Garmin Edge 510 & 810 for cyclists announced
Garmin
- No pic yet, but we now know how much the Garmin Oregon 600 series NiMH battery pack will go for ($21.95)
- Look what’s coming; A Garmin Oregon6xx wiki
- In-depth reviews of the Garmin Edge 510 and 810 by DC Rainmaker (Shocker: They run BT 2.1, not BTLE)
- The etrex 10/20/30 “sticky” issue is pronounced solved
- Why do my Trip Computer Odometer and Track Log Distance not agree?
- Garmin Connect gets training plans feature
- Brute forcing a GPS PIN; via @PocketGPSWorld
- Great Britain Bike Hike Garmin compatible map
- We don’t tend to cover aviation, but the Garmin Pilot app is on sale
- Here’s what the 2013 nuvi series Essential and Advanced series suction cup mounts looks like:
Garmin nuvi 2013 Essential and Advanced series windshield mount
TomTom
- Is TomTom coming out with an ecoRoute HD OBD competitor?
Magellan
- Magellan eXplorist GC geocaching GPS giveaway
More CES-related news
- Harman Demonstrates Turn-by-Turn Navigation with Augmented Reality (short video) and here is an article with some screen shots
- DC Rainmaker goes hands on with the new Leikr GPS sports watch
Updates
- Software updates this week: Garmin Alpha, dezl 760LMT, nuvi 2xx5, 35xx, Magellan Content Manager for Mac
- c:geo v 2012.12.18
- Magellan Active API v 1.4
- Magellan Active website updated
Geocaching
- Two geocaching studies
- Android geocachers – You’ve heard of c:geo, how about a:Drake? Via Geocaching Podcast
- Geodetecting = geocaching + metal detecting; via GPS City
Satellites and such
- Can’t resist including this: White House responds to petition to build death star
- Atomic clocks on GPS satellites run faster than on earth
- British shipping gets eLoran
The business of GPS
- Car owners frustrated with onboard GPS
- One million OpenStreetMappers
- GPS patent wars
GPS in the news
- People are more willing to give up GPS than a lot of other things
- Follow the sound – GPS audio beacon
GPS tracking
- Carjacker found at Heights Walmart thanks to GPS
- Police use GPS to find car driven by mother of abandoned infant
- As someone who used to use Motorola radios every day for years, I found this interesting: Emergency radios could have GPS
- Serial bankrobber stung by GPS
- Stalkers find friend in GPS technology
Geotagging
- Mapping Disasters With Geo-Tagged Photographs
- Inside the Canon EOS 6D‘s integrated GPS
Going mobile
- What is a Trapster Moderator & How do I Become One?
- Scout by Telenav for iPhone review
- Clarion adds WAZE to in-vehicle apps
- Waze needs your help with geocoding data sources
- OS MapFinder comes to iOS
Australian map gets new heat legend categories
Just geo
- It’s so hot in Australia…They had to add new categories to the temperature map legend (image above)
- New National Geographic state atlases show recreation opportunities
- A surprising map of the best and worst countries to be born into today
- Oregon coast gets new national forest map
- Boyd’s LIDAR Map of the Pines (NJ); and some background info
- Cool live flight tracker
- Bridges to Nowhere
- 32 Imaginative And Beautifully Designed Maps; via @maproomblog
- DigitalGlobe’s Top Image of the Year (image below)
DigitalGlobe image of the year: Burning Man!
All the news that doesn’t fit
- A great tip for using gloves with capacitive screens
- Florida trail GPX files
- An Internet of drones?
- ByteLight Solves Indoor Mapping Problem With LED Lighting
Updated GPS reviews
I’ve updated these review and resource pages with the following links:
- Garmin eTrex 20 – I’ve embedded Jim Cyr’s video on how to install & display maps
- TomTom VIA 1605TM – EvoGadget takes on this 6″ model
About Rich Owings
You said “No pic yet, but we now know how much the Garmin Oregon 600 series NiMH battery pack will go for ($21.95).”
If you watch this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muzpluGPFUg it looks like you can see the battery pack at 2:14. It even has the Garmin name stamped on it, although it pretty much looks like two AA rechargeable batteries taped together.
The survey for using geocaching as exercise is certainly interesting, and since I do try to use geocaching as a way of varying my exercise (the ones where I hike in, not the C&D caches), I’m very interested in participating, but I’m surprised they are asking for things like address and DOB. Given all the privacy concerns, it sends off an alarm bell in my head. I wish they just asked for age or some other larger category (e.g. year of birth, or month/year). I sent an email to them, I’ll see what they say. I could “fake” the data a bit, but if they ever asked for the DOB again, I probably wouldn’t remember what I used. 😉
I don’t blame you!