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 from the recent study that TomTom released, which shows that we’re all spending way more time sitting in traffic than ever before. Read it, and other GPS-related news below.
From GPS Tracklog
Satellite Stuff
Garmin
TomTom
- TomTom Selected by Volvo Cars to Power Drive me Programme
- TomTom Celebrates Millionth Mercedes-Benz Car Hitting teh Road with TomTom Traffic
- TomTom’s Flexible Navigation Components Trusted for Next Generation Peugeot Line-up
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- Smartphone GPS Data Saves A Man Slapped With A Hefty Lawsuit
- New GPS technology will help keep trains from crashing. Why is it taking so long to arrive?
- The Best GPS Units For Your Next Hike or Roadtrip
- GPS disruption a full-fledged aviation problem
- Taxi carjacked by its passengers, police find taxi by GPS
The business of GPS
- Australia poised for GPS diver navigation system trials
- GPS Insight Wins Three Awards at the 11th Annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service
- DevOps process reduces GPS OCX development time for Raytheon
- Spirent helps to improve search-and-rescue operations at sea
Drones
- Automated delivery drones could be coming to Florida’s sidewalks
- Researchers Testing Drones’ Impact on Humans
- China Working on Stealth Military Drones
- Keep drones away from fire scenes, wildlife officials warn
Going mobile
Just Geo
- Death Valley is so otherworldly that it once played a planet in a galaxy far, far away
- Utah author inspires love of geology and the value of tradition with latest picture book
- IBM’s uber-computer Watson taking geology lessons
- Geologic atlas effort to help with decision making
- Author explains state and its geology
