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 world’s largest GPS drawing created in the United Kingdom, which happens to be just in time for Halloween! Happy Halloween everyone! Here are some other things that happened in the GPS world this week:
From GPS Tracklog
- Happy Halloween!!
GPS Tracking
- 1 in 10 parents will track kids with apps on Halloween
- Yosemite rangers try to keep hungry bears at bay by using GPS tracking collars
- Track or treat: Tracking your kids’ Halloween
- Microsoft has released a Band for fitness tracking, more
- Fitness tracker Strava raises $18.5M, wants to build Facebook for athletes
- GPS ear tags to alert farmers of wild dog attacks
- Safe Ride tracking app to debut in November
Satellite Stuff
Garmin
- Garmin Reports Strong Revenue & Pro Forma EPS Growth in Third Quarter 2014
- Garmin Introduces New Cost-Effective ADS-B Solution for General Aviation
- New Transducer Line from Garmin Boasts Scanning Sonar
- Garmin Introduces New GHP Reactor Autopilot Systems
- Garmin Introduces New Scanning Sonar Black Box
- Garmin Announces New ecoMAP Series
- Garmin Introduces New GHP Reactor Autopilot Systems
- Garmin Introduces New xHD2 Open-Array Radar Series
TomTom
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- 3 NY GOP assemblymen sign on to bill to bar use of GPS devices to track people
- Whisper App’s GPS Privacy policy still under debate
- Convicted sex offender arrested after taking off GPS tracker
- Prepare for the part-time self-driving car
- New NY Law Makes GPS Stalking a Misdemeanor
The business of GPS
- Baidu Embraces ‘Indoor GPS’ Systems Technology
- Enterprise Mobile Location App Developer Electric Compass named “2014 Tech Company to Watch”
- GPS Interferometric Reflectometry Technique Wins International Water Prize
Going mobile
- ‘Shuddle’ app aims to be the Uber of kids ridesharing
- Tinder fan? Then you’ll love this Tinder-style app for house parties
- Sleepy Hollow actor Tim Misson records Voice for Waze Directions
- GolfNow Launches Premium Golf App with GPS
- SkyCaddie Mobile GPS App Now Available
Drones
Just Geo
- Geology textbooks wrong about continental formation, says new research
- Colorado College geology professor makes discovery of career
- New Geologic Materials Center Opens In Anchorage
- Largest uncut diamond was a mammoth gem
