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 Garmin’s new RV centric GPS unit. Read about it and other GPS news below:
From GPS Tracklog
- GPS Safety App Offers Alternative to Tracker
- New Cycling Navigation Device, Beeline, Launches
- Australia to Test SBAS Positioning Technology
- Garmin Debuts New Dedicated RV Device
- Couple Uses GPS To Announce Pregnancy
- FCC Looking for Comment on U.S. Use of Galileo Signals
GPS Tracking
Satellite Stuff
- Russia to Construct Glonass Satellite Navigation Station in Nicaragua
- ESA Inside View on the Present and Future of GNSS
TomTom
GPS in the news
- GPS tracker hidden amid cash leads officers to Arcadia restaurant burglary suspects
- In Alzheimer’s, excess tau protein damages brain’s GPS
- Bad GPS info hampers rescue after ATV crash on Stanislaus’ West Side
- Hawaii installs cameras, GPS on school buses
The business of GPS
Drones
- Watch Air Swirl Around a Quadcopter Drone’s Rotors
- Kitables wants to build even smaller Lego drones
- Aerial drones reveal sharks in shallow water
- Revealed: 13 near misses with drones at London airports last year
- Conservationists crowdfund drones to capture land clearing
Going mobile
- Android GPS Problems: How To Solve GPS Connectivity Issues In Samsung, Huawei, HTC And Others
- Pokemon Go Guide: How To Avoid Gym Lockouts From GPS Drifting
Just Geo
- University of Kansas center to foster modern geology study
- New Brunswick: Rutgers Geology Museum to host open house
- Sniffin: “Rising from the Plains” describes Wyo.’s geology
- Study of microbes gives new insight into Earth’s geology and carbon cycles
- Geology Museum Gifted Millions Worth of New Gems, Minerals
