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 one of the fabled APE caches since Groundspeak recently announced the fate of the recently recovered Mission 9: Tunnel of Light cache. Read on below to find out about this and other GPS news:
From GPS Tracklog
GPS Tracking
- Bill seeks to crack down on warrantless government tracking
- Auto dealers can use GPS and ‘starter interrupter’ tech to disable your car
Garmin
TomTom
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- NIADA leads effort to prevent GPS device ban in NJ
- Nepal is using GPS to catch Mount Everest cheaters
- GPS navigation turns off part of the brain
- GPS blamed for sending trucks crashing into this tiny Arkansas town
- Georgia man, following GPS, almost drives into creek; police say he was drunk
The business of GPS
- Results from Munich — It is Time for a GNSS Backup! — US says “Long Overdue”
- Air Force inviting industry to create GPS ideas, general says
- Morrow Sodali Acquires Majority Interest in GPS
Drones
- Drone Use Will Skyrocket By 2021, Government Says
- Drone Defense Startups Flock to the Rescue
- New Canadian drone rules bring order to chaotic pastime
- Drones May One Day Buzz Inside a Walmart Near You
- Drones Are Learning to Land Like Birds
- Underwater drone is ready to make a splash
- New generation of cyber highwaymen could threaten parcel drones
Going mobile
- Waze puts Spotify music controls in its navigation app
- Google Maps 9.49.0 Update Comes with Accurate Maps and Improved GPS Navigation
Just Geo
- Geologists Find Remnants of Early Earth’s Crust in Canada
- Fossils, caves and karst, and how geology affected the Civil War
- Marys Peak geology featured in new book
- The Anthropocene: Scientists respond to criticisms of a new geological epoch
- Mars Planet’s Geology Is More Similar to Earth, Study Suggests
- Exhibit at Maritime Museum Taps ‘The Geology of Oil in the Santa Barbara Channel’
