Facebook gets GPS tracking!
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. Today’s lead image is of a new optional Facebook feature: location tracking.
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
GPS tracking
- Police: Suspects wore GPS trackers during killings
- Suspected O.C. serial killer cut off GPS, ran from cops, shop owner says
- Police: GPS helped solve, didn’t deter killings
- Victim’s Mom Blasts GPS Monitors After California Serial Killings
- Police Say Convicts GPS Devices Worked as Intended During Murders
- State Senate Leader Seeks Review Of GPS Tracking
- Why GPS Doesn’t Always Work for Tracking Convicts
- Unrelated: Family of Autistic Child Launches Startup to Provide Professional Grade GPS Tracker
Garmin
- The company continues to confuse folks with unannounced oddball models; in case you come across the nuvi 3580LMT
it’s basically a 3590LMT without HD traffic
- Vivofit
- Garmin Pilot for Android Adds Interactive Map Features, Including Track-Up
- Garmin Announces New Vector Pedal Pod Size
DeLorme
- DeLorme inReach Explorer estimated ship date is May 15
Magellan
- Magellan RoadMate PND With Integrated DashCam (shown below) Now Available
Magellan’s new dash cam PND
Updates
- Garmin software updates this week: BaseCamp for Windows (beta), fenix/D2/tactix (beta)
- Expert GPS v 5.10
Satellites and such
- GLONASS Loses Control Again
- Delay in Setting Recently Launched Block IIF Satellite Healthy
- Return to Sequestration Would Hit GPS III, Missile Defense Efforts
- GPS satellites improve position accuracy, deter spoofing
Geocaching
- Grisly Find For Teenage Geocachers
- BLM plans to remove geocaches from Oregon Badlands and other wilderness study areas
- Geocaching and game lands conflict; via @CacheAdvance
- 2014 Geocaching International Film Festival Call for Entries
GPS in the news
- GPS based aircraft tracking mandated by 2020 in U.S.
- Spatial Easter Egg Hunts
- Sat nav seals fate of drunk driver
- GPS problems may have delayed emergency response to Dakota man
Drones
- Criminals using drones to steal pot crops
- FAA Files Appeal Brief in Pirker Case
- Google beats Facebook to acquisition of drone maker
The business of GPS
- TomTom licensing tech from Mio
- Garmin Isn’t Dead After All; I don’t know where to start with this article but here’s one quote:
“…GPS-like technology the Apple and other smartphone makers put on their handsets…”
Going mobile
- TomTom Launches 30-day Trial of Navigation App for iPhone
- This poll on how you use HERE probably generalizes pretty well to other navigation apps
- Scout GPS app keeps your gas and coffee detour to a minimum
- Globalstar giving away sat phones (if you sign up for $150/month unlimited plan)
- Pioneer Brings Apple CarPlay to Existing In-Dash Receivers
- Apple’s CarPlay reportedly coming to aftermarket Alpine stereo systems
Apple’s CarPlay interface
Just geo
- Cool mapping tool for county counters
- An Unpopulated Heat Map
- USGS Launches Streamer Version 2; here it is
- The US singles map
- What does Crimea tell us about Google?
- Topographic Map Contour Lines
- Street View and reCAPTCHA technology just got smarter
All the news that doesn’t fit
- All US national parks free this weekend
- Webinar on next generation search and rescue
- How the GPS defeated the great hippocampus
- The world’s first GPS surf watch…
Somebody beat Garmin to this sportwatch niche!
About Rich Owings
“GLONASS Loses Control Again.” Link Missing?
http://gpsworld.com/glonass-loses-control-again/
Thanks guys. I was out and unconnected yesterday and am just fixing this now.