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 the prototype of an implantable GPS microchip that is roughly the size of a grain of rice. This little beauty is designed to track pets—one of the first of its kind. Check back Sunday for the full story. In the meantime… here’s what happened this week.
From GPS Tracklog
GPS Tracking
Satellite Stuff
- Galileo update/recap from GPS World
- Diagrams of Galileo satellite orbits released
- Russia not renewing talks with U.S. over GLONASS stations
Garmin
- Garmin and vivofit partner with the Biggest Loser
- Garmin® Completes First Flight of the Beechjet 400A Featuring G5000™
- Garmin opens wearable platform for developers
The business of GPS
- NY, NJ Lobby to make covert GPS by private citizens illegal
- Assembly GOP Leader Brian Kolb defends use of GPS device on competitor
GPS in the news
- Saratov scientists develop geomagnetic navigation technology alternative to GPS, GLONASS
- Handheld Group Launches Nautiz X8 Rugged Device
- Suspect gets new trial after illegal GPS use by police
- States Implementing GPS Tracking of Domestic Abuse Offenders
- 3 Fishermen in Ecuador Rescued at Sea Thanks to GPS Device
- Polar’s new GPS watch also offers activity tracking for $200
Going mobile
- Best apps for indoor navigation
- ViewRanger GPS updates to improve iOS 8 compatibility
- Faster GPS Lock on Your Rooted Android Device
- Maps 3D navigation app will change your outdoors life forever
- MapQuest introduces new traffic commute app
Drones
- International 2015 CES looks at future of drones
- Someone is developing a Wearable Camera That Turns Into a Drone and Flies Off Your Wrist
Just Geo
- Geology walk set at Olana Sunday
- History, geology lessons on a Cascade trail, OR
- Geology shows fires have scarred forests for millions of years
- Tajikistan and Finland to cooperate in geology sphere
All the news that doesn’t fit
- Debt Collectors can not only track cars, but remotely turn them off
- Balloon Fiesta pilots will trade in paper maps for GPS tablets this year
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