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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. In this week’s lead video above, Netflix pokes fun at Amazon’s drone delivery plans.
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
Garmin
- Share Your Adventures with the BaseCamp Mobile (no mention of Android support though)
- Why is trafficTrends worse than TomTom’s IQ Routes?
- Now shipping: Garmin vivofit
- Support for nuLink gone in 2015
- Creating custom workouts on the Garmin fenix/tactix
- More on Garmin Express eating your fitness data
- Garmin abandons Gobi trademark
Magellan
- Magellan discusses the future of Echo and activity trackers, starting at about the 2:50 mark…
Mobile World Congress
- DC Rainmaker: Hands on with Samsung’s new waterproof S5, activity tracker and Gear watches
- FAIL: CEO Demos A Water-Resistant Phone By Submerging It… And It Goes Dead
- Mobile World Congress Features Connected Cars, Indoor Positioning
- DC Rainmaker MWC Roundup Part 1: and Part 2
- A Volkswagen Golf TDI can mind-meld with your phone, thanks to MirrorLink
- Sony embraces ANT+
- Samsung’s New Gear 2 Watch With Built-in Heart Rate Monitor
- Mediatek Announces Five-in-One Chip for Mobile Devices
- How to navigate with HERE on a Samsung Galaxy Gear
- CoPilot GPS navigation app wants to improve your commute
- HERE Mobile SDK for Business
- The i’m Tracer bracelet means never having to ask ‘where’s the kid?’
- Navigation for more people: HERE Maps for Nokia X
The new curved color touchscreen on the Samsung Gear Fit is definitely a game changer. pic.twitter.com/76ehRwwCUZ
— Ray Maker (@dcrainmakerblog) February 24, 2014
More mobile news
- Using cellphone as GPS not subject to Calif. driving law, court rules
- Apple reportedly launching iOS in the car next week
- Apple formalizes iBeacon Bluetooth spec in the hopes of wider adoption
GPS in the news
- West Hartford Police: Man Said GPS (not DUI) Made Him Drive The Wrong Way
- Driver: I was following GPS when I turned onto train tracks
- Cyclist heads down freeway, blames GPS
- Left without direction thanks to GPS
- Fighting Aviation Turbulence With High-End GPS
Updates
- Garmin updates this week: Approach G8/S2/S3/S4, Astro 320, BaseCamp Mobile for iOS, dezl 760, eTrex 20/30, fenix/D2/Tactix (beta), fenix 2, GPSMAP 64
- ExpertGPS v 5.05 & 5.06
Geocaching
- 5 Geocaching Etiquette Tips
- (Geocache) Maker Madness events coming
- A Geocaching Trackable Frames a Journey
- Cache Advance acquires Cache Addict
Satellites and such
GPS tracking
- Location data too? Google: We Reserve The Right To Use EXIF Data For Images
- GPS, cellphone data key in murder trial
- Rogers County Deputies Use GPS To Catch Trailer Theft Suspects
- Ankle bracelet with GPS ties uncle to murder of his nephew
- A parent’s guide to GPS tracking devices
- FCC ready for indoor location rules for 911 calls
- Problems plague GPS tracking of WA offenders
- Probation officials concede failures in GPS tracking of CA felons
The business of GPS
- Garmin to Sponsor 2014 Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships
- German Design Firm Claims Willful Patent Infringement Over Google Earth
- Location Services Company Skyhook Wireless Gets Acquired By TruePosition
Just geo
- Introducing Google Maps Gallery; here it is
- The Future of Google Earth
- It’s back! Google Maps – Right-click for coordinates
- XKCD graphic on the Depths of Lakes and Oceans; via @deantaplin
- Google Yanks Fake FBI Listing From Google Maps
- GeoLearn with Geospatial Online Learning Opens Its Doors
- The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire
- Mysterious Egyptian spiral seen on Google Maps
At night, there's a stark contrast between the two Koreas. http://t.co/4vxs2TuWdV pic.twitter.com/pTTFFOvlAb
— NASA Earth (@NASAEarth) February 24, 2014
All the news that doesn’t fit
- 5 reasons a standalone GPS unit can still make sense
- Who Finds You When You Wander Off The Hiking Trail?
- This Awesome GPS Golf Tracker Could Finally Fix Your Game
- Will smartphones overtake fixed sensors in a nationwide vehicle safety network?
- Dead Reckoning
- ‘The map comes alive‘: Nokia Here boss dreams of drones, self-driving cars
- Microsoft tries to re-invent GPS with cloudy offloads
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