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 Waze beacon, which may help provide GPS directions inside of tunnels. Check out what else has been going on in the world of GPS below:
From GPS Tracklog
- Use GPS to Help Rescuers Find You Faster
- Waze Tackles GPS Tunnel Blindness
- MapQuest To Continue Deal with TomTom
- Truck Driver Hits Low Bridge in NY Following Wrong Type of GPS Device
- GPS Anomaly in Central Russia May be Spoofing
GPS Tracking
- Rewire Security releases their GPS Tracking Platform
- Apple Watch sales plunge as Fitbit continues to rule wearables
- Runkeeper uses Apple Watch GPS to keep track of your route
Satellite Stuff
Garmin
TomTom
Geocaching
- Isla del Encanto: Puerto Rico — newest Geocaching souvenir!
- Brand new geocaching country souvenir for Russia
GPS in the news
- Police put GPS tracker in cough syrup, catch alleged burglars
- Law Enforcement Permitted To Obtain GPS Location Data Without A Warrant In A Sex Trafficking Investigation
- Suspect wanted after GPS devices stolen from Pilot stop in Dickson
The business of GPS
- DoT Starts Hunt for GPS Timing Backup Supplier
- Lockheed Martin Advances GPS Ground Control System for U.S. Air Force
- Lockheed completes USAF GPS ground control system upgrade
- Military GPS Device Market to Grow Nearly 4% CAGR to 2020
- Skypine car navigation maker adopts Furuno receiver with dead reckoning
Drones
Just Geo
- The Living Landscape: Geology – the lay of the land
- An urban collection of modern-day large micrometeorites: Evidence for variations in the extraterrestrial dust flux through the Quaternary
