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 from a new app that uses pictures to direct users through complicated buildings. This week also had some pretty killer Cyber sales, but those are pretty well over by now. Here’s what else is going on in the GPS world…
From GPS Tracklog
GPS Tracking
- Slideshow: Tracking Animals With The Help Of Wearables
- Man Proposes To Girlfriend By Writing It Out With A GPS
Satellite Stuff
- GLONASS-K State Testing to End in 2015: Russian DefenseMinistry
- Soyuz 2-1B lofts GLONASS K-1 satellite
- Russian research center modernizes all Frigate-MT rocket boosters after Galileo failure
Garmin
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- Is the Growing Importance of a Wi-Fi Positioning System Making GPS Redundant?
- SmartSole partners with Lifebutton 24 for live GPS support services
- Thieves steal Albuquerque man’s car; found via iPhone tracking app
- First Navigation Signal from Galileo 5 Received
- Stolen iPad’s GPS app helps West Haven Police find burglary suspect
- The New Wearable? Clothing with GPS, Wi-Fi Woven In
- Detectives use GPS tracking to catch burglars
The business of GPS
- The System: eLoran Operational on Eastern UK Coast
- TomTom Acquires Dutch FMS Fleetlogic, Third Telematics Buy
- Broadcom Announces Industry’s First GNSS Location Hub for Smartphones to Support Galileo System
Going mobile
- Valley company ready to launch tow truck locator app in 2015
- China Smartphones to Use BeiDou System
- Best Offline GPS Android Apps For Navigating Without Internet Connection
- App Helps Navigate Using Pictures
Just Geo
- Lochaber seeks European status for its impressive geology
- Some predict big quakes for central U.S. again
- Europe feels fracking shakes
- Geology’s ‘rock star’ talks fracking
- Mysterious Midcontinent Rift turns out to be a geological hybrid
