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 2015 Garmin Montana devices, which feature GLONASS support and a handful of upgrades. Read all about it below!
From GPS Tracklog
- Garmin Announces New 2015 Montana Devices
- Yale Researchers Develop Navigation Cube
- SmartHalo Uses Light for Bike Navigation
- Garmin Updates Edge Devices with Strava
- Make Art with Your Phone’s GPS
- Garmin Adds Driver Alerts to New Dash Cams
GPS Tracking
- Smartphone tracking technology helps to conserve koala habitat in NSW southern highlands
- Fitbit, Garmin Beat Apple as Running Tech, Says Baird
Satellite Stuff
Garmin
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- Officials look to tougher laws to enforce protective orders
- Police hunt for latest offender to cut off GPS anklet
- Hamilton County Schools Updating Technology to Increase Security
- Miami Hurricanes Use Technology to Improve Performance & Safety
- Tracking Stolen Police Cars
- Suffolk Public Schools working to add GPS systems to buses
- Police use GPS tracking in Adams heroin bust
- Aircraft noise could be reduced by GPS
- GPS device found in car suggests professor under surveillance
- House votes to criminalize most GPS tracking
- NYPD Catches Raleigh Crime Spree Suspect Using Car GPS
The business of GPS
- Fleet Tracking Company, InTouchGPS, Ranked 1st Overall & Best GPS Fleet Tracking Software For Small Businesses
- Shark Tank entrepreneur William Strange raises $1 million for sports-tracking business
Drones
Going mobile
- UNC Charlotte Encourages Students and Faculty to Download LiveSafe App
- Download new app designed to help users discover Gloucester’s heritage
- Stephen Colbert is the Newest Celebrity Voice for Waze GPS App
- Let Rob Gronkowski be your guide with GPS voiceover for Waze
- UT student promotes app to help students stay off cellphones in class
Just Geo
- Denali Gets New Height along with Name Change
- A good introduction to geology course is actually a course in time
- Assessing The Eagle Ford: Geology
- Mother Lode Geology: Buildings of stone
- Geology professors receive grant for study of the “impossible”
- Erosion and Geology: Colorado’s Front Range Storm of 2013
- Where Does Climate Change Education Fit?
- The lake and the Sherpa: A story of geology, danger and why people live with it
All the news that doesn’t fit