Looks like Motorola is going after Garmin’s sports market pretty aggressively. After successfully launching the MOTOACTV Fitness tracker and music player, they are now announcing the MOTOACTV Golf Edition
MOTOACTV Golf edition hits the links
March 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Search and rescue capability coming to GPS, GLONASS and Galileo
March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For many years now, satellite-aided search and rescue notification has been available using personal locator beacons (PLBs). Cospas-Sarsat, as this service is officially known, utilizes geosynchronous and low earth orbit satellites. This results in a couple of limitations – the need to have a direct line of sight to a transmitter (for the former), and the possibility that multiple orbits may be required to independently establish a position (for the latter). read more
Garmin eTrex 10 review
March 5, 2012 By 4 Comments
Hands on review of the Garmin eTrex 10
The Garmin eTrex 10
DeLorme inReach for Android review
February 27, 2012 By 5 Comments
Hands on review of the DeLorme inReach for Android
The DeLorme inReach for Android
Garmin BaseCamp video tutorials
February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Garmin’s BaseCamp program is powerful but it can be confusing to new users. Fortunately, Garmin has posted a series of video tutorials covering most of the basics. Even the introductory video is good as it clearly explains what “My Collection” is and how the lists under it can be used. There are Mac and PC versions of the videos. I’m filing this under handhelds, although BaseCamp can be used to a certain extent with some auto units too. Here’s the Intro to BaseCamp for PC video, followed by a full list of the BaseCamp tutorials…
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Handheld GPS 201: Using online tracks for trails
February 13, 2012 By 10 Comments
One of my early experiences with GPS surprised me. I went out for a hike in Van Damme State Park, using my GPS to collect a track along the way. When I got home I transferred the track to my computer, opened it in a mapping program, and was surprised to find that my track was a lot more accurate than the USGS map of the trail. read more
LIDAR-based maps for your Garmin
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Frequent commenter Boyd Ostroff, who keeps cranking out amazing Garmin-compatible maps, has just published a LIDAR-based map of a portion of southern New Jersey. I’m hoping we’ll see more of these for other areas, as the elevation detail is amazing.
Topo.com goes away, takes SuperQuads with it
January 30, 2012 By 6 Comments
Late last week I received an email from National Geographic Maps, informing me that their Topo.com website would be discontinued in 30 days, as they transtion to a new partnership with AllTrails.com. The National Geographic Topo
RIP Geomate.jr
January 26, 2012 By 6 Comments
UPDATE: As of February 9, they have revived the update zone, at least temporarily.
Sad news today for geocachers on a budget – the Geomate.jr will no longer be sold and the Update Zone service has been discontinued. Keep reading for all the gory details along with how to get a new pocket query into your Geomate…
Handheld GPS 201: Mapping software
January 24, 2012 By 21 Comments
With today’s topic, I’m starting a new series, a follow up to my Handheld GPS 101 posts. Are you ready to move on to the next class? Alright then. Today’s topic is mapping software — and I’m not talking about maps for your GPS here, but rather desktop or laptop software that will turn you into a power user. read more
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