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. This week’s featured image is a Travel Bug, which we talked about on Thursday in our Geocaching Guide to Traveling Items.
From GPS Tracklog
- Opinion: Have We Lost the Ability To Get Lost?
- Top Ten Bestselling Cycling GPS Units on Amazon
- GPS Fail: Driving Across the Ocean
- Survey shows 1/3 of people cannot navigate with a paper map
GPS Tracking
- Smart shoes make your shoes GPS capable
- GPS Shipment tracker mistaken for bomb in Elkhart, Indiana
- Law enforcement in Belleville, Michigan are using a new bracelet GPS tracker on parolees
- Microsoft is tracking alligators… for some reason….
- Check out these 8 apps for tracking teenagers if you feel your helicopter parent skills are waning
- GPS Tracking installed in cabs in India
Garmin
- Former Garmin employee caught stealing GPS units
TomTom
- TomTom releases figures for TomTom Telematics
- Their Second Quarter FY 14 report has been released
- TomTom Expands its Real-Time Traffic Service to Turkey
Updates
- Garmin updates GTN to provide better features
- Garmin provides G3X Touch Screen Option and Connext Cockpit for Experimental Aircraft
Satellite Stuff
- ESA mission operators prepare for post launch control of twin Galileo satellites, which are scheduled for launch next month
- ULA rocket set to launch July 31; preparations have begun already
- Japan is using their Quasi-Zenith Satellites to track mudslides and hopefully prevent natural disaster casualties
- Gen. Shelton warns U.S. to be aware of Space threats
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- NY passes law to allow police to prosecute GPS tracking of Victims
- Farms use GPS to cut corn mazes
- Walnut Hill Medical Center uses GPS to help with atrial fibrillation and other heart rhythm irregularity treatments
The business of GPS
- Medapoint Announces Partnership with Tomtom Telematics
- Location Based Technologies, Inc. GPS Trackers Chosen by Australian Warranty Network
- Imerjn Acquires Rocky Mountain Tracking
Going mobile
- New app, PlaceUs combines GPS tracking with predictive technology to try and decide where you are and where you’re going.
- Smartwatch App aims to make your GPS watch obsolete
- The Fuse has posted a nice guide for using Waze
- New App makes farming a breeze for pennies instead of thousands
Just Geo
- U.S. Geological Survey Releases New National Seismic Maps
- If you’re in the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, check out this cool website (which has an app also) which maps groundwater and geology in 3D.
- Mining is exploding in Krygyzstan with 1,218 licenses for mining issued Thusrday
- Geologists take a closer look at Mars, and explain consistency and possibility of microbial life in the past
- This article talks about NASA’s Moon-Bound Geology Lab that never quite got off the ground
- National Geographic explores sinkholes in the U.S. and what they’re all about
- Contemporary artists reimagine maps. Some are pretty cool, most are just weird…
All the news that doesn’t fit
- VoiceCaddy VC300 redefines golfing GPS
- Live Science has posted a list of 5 Cool Military Tech gadgets, including drones and GPS
- Study reveals super solar storm that narrowly missed Earth would have blown away all tech
- New Motorcycle mount released
