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 new TomTom Rider that was announced this week. This motorcycle GPS sports some pretty sweet features for all you motorcyclists out there! Read on for more information.
Here’s some other things that happened this week in the world if GPS:
From GPS Tracklog
GPS Tracking
Satellite Stuff
Garmin
- Garmin Adds Features to GPSMAP and echoMap Lines
- Garmin Introduces Large Format Marine GPS
- Garmin Releases Approach S5 GPS Golf Watch
TomTom
Geocaching
- Be a Part of What’s Next for Geocaching – Geocaching.com calls for feedback
- The Lackey Geocoin: An Unexpected 26,000-mile, 5-Year Journey
GPS in the news
- Indiegogo campaign to make haptic feedback GPS bike grips launches\
- GPS tracker pins suspect at crime scene
- Sen. Schumer Calls For National ‘Avonte’s Law’ To Track Autistic Children
- UCSD uses GPS to find lost teen hunter, dog
- GPS tracking devices being developed to monitor people with dementia in care homes
- Frank van Diggelen: Riding the GNSS Wave
The business of GPS
- Russia Successfully Tests Alternative to U.S.-Funded GPS Technology
- Congress alarmed by plans to use Russian satellites to route 911 calls
- Wyden tries again on phone privacy ‘GPS Act’
Going Mobile
- iKeyMonitor for iPhone is Updated with GPS Location Tracking
- North Ridgeville School District test smartphone GPS app
- GPS-based snowplow tracking apps hold cities accountable, turn residents into watchdogs
Drones
- Poachers, Conservationists Use Drones and GPS in Wildlife Battle
- The best drones to fly in 2015
- Novadem’s UAV Solution for Automatic Inspection of Structures Without GPS Coverage
Just Geo
- Geologists Find Rock with 30,000 Diamonds
- Made in Michigan: State of ‘fascinating geology’
- Anthropocene era: Humans changed the Earth’s geology by setting off atomic bombs in 1945
- Rutgers Geology Museum Presents Annual Open House
- Elsevier Publishes Five New Geology Books
- UW Researcher Contributes to Understanding of Earth’s Geology
All the news that doesn’t fit
