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 Spark, which will be the first GPS watch with the ability to store music. TomTom announced the watch this last week.
From GPS Tracklog
- Yepzon GPS Locator Launches in US
- FAA Grants Approval for Fleet of 300 Commercial Drones
- GPS Shows Denali 10 Feet Shorter Than We Thought
- Strava Doodler Creates Images With GPS
- TomTom Spark Adds Music to your Workout
- IP Ratings Explained
GPS Tracking
- Bill Tags Sex Offenders Who Remove Location-Tracking Devices
- CDC gives College of Natural Resources grant for GPS tracking technology
Satellite Stuff
- Ninth and tenth Galileo satellites prepare for launch next week
- EGNOS Services Ensured Long Term, Thanks to SES-5 GEO Satellite
- Arianespace Saddles Soyuz, A Workhorse, In Preparation For Two More Galileo Satellites
TomTom
- Pon partnership with TomTom Telematics showcases new connected car opportunities for car service provider
- TomTom Appoints Antoine Saucier as Managing Director of its Automotive Division
Geocaching
- New geocache launched mapping trail of Cambridge graffiti herons
- Earn a new souvenir for International EarthCache Day
GPS in the news
- Railways to tie up with ISRO for enhanced safety via GPS-aided system in New Delhi
- College student suggests using spatially aware marbles for navigation
- Serial burglar gets 25 years after stealing GPS-equipped AC unit
- Rockford schools discontinue use of GPS-compatible bus passes
- McMurdo Introduces Next-Gen Software for Satellite-Aided Search and Rescue
- TAG’s Military Survey System on Display at ION GNSS+
- New Rochelle Man Caught in Car with Stolen Property
- GPS-Guided Artillery Rounds Will Arm Dutch Howitzers
- Missile Defense Money, UAV Rules, Amateur Rockets And GPS Cost Overruns
- Wigs for Kids to launch new tracking software after hair donations dumped in NC
Drones
Going mobile
- Line Here is Here: A Location-Sharing Service for Line Users
- Need someone to walk you home? There’s an app for that, website reports
- This Parenting App Could Stop Teens From Texting While Driving, If You Want To Be An Uber-Helicopter Parent
Just Geo
- San Juan College’s geology museum nears completion
- Rock art allegedly vandalized by college geology students
- This is Why Everyone Should Study Geology
- The Mother Lode: A Geology: Trenches and terrains mark the Lode
- Geology professor digs up dinosaurs in Jurassic ‘Death Pit’
All the news that doesn’t fit
