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 prime meridian, or the point of zero longitude on the globe. For decades, GPS units have read it as a different location than the one set into the ground at Greenwich, but this week, scientists have finally figured out why.
From GPS Tracklog
- Magellan Back to School Fitness Sale
- GPS City Now Accepts PayPal
- Why the Prime Meridian Isn’t Where You Think it Is
- Will Children’s Voices Improve Auto Safety?
- UAV Sightings Skyrocket in 2015
- Possible Partial Shutdown of DGPS
GPS Tracking
- Smokies biologists tracking nuisance bears with GPS collars
- Using GPS To Track Ivory Smugglers
- US Fleet Tracking Gives A Firsthand Look At The Top 3 GPS Tracker Reports For Fleets
- Connecticut Launching Statewide GPS-Based Bus Tracking System
Satellite Stuff
Garmin
- Garmin Expands Multiyear In-Dash Navigation Partnership for New Honda Models
- Garmin Marine Pro Anglers to Compete in 2015 Forrest Wood Cup
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- Hagerstown police use ‘bait bike,’ GPS to track alleged thief
- Cheap GPS Spoofer Changes Everything – For the Worse
- Russia may offer Glonass-based navigation system for light aircraft
- Abusers use technology to stalk victims, police say
- Kayak racers to use GPS
- International GPS Project Provides Details of Nepal Earthquake
The business of GPS
- Canada to Supply MEOSAR Search and Rescue Repeaters to GPS III
- New GNSS Market Report Assesses 2020 Outlook
- Appropriations Impasse Could Stall U.S. GPS Programs
- Ultra-wideband Re-emerges as a GNSS Interference Issue
Going mobile
Just Geo
- The Geology Of Star Trek: From Extraterrestrial Minerals To Alien Life-Forms
- Geology, drainage, laws decrease odds of toxic mine spill in Teller, El Paso counties
- Mother Lode Geology: The Gold Belt
- One third of UK ‘suitable for a nuclear burial site’
All the news that doesn’t fit
