I thought it might be interesting to do a retrospective before we jump into the new year. Take a look and see if you missed anything!
Archives for 2011
2011 – The GPS year in review
December 30, 2011 By 3 Comments
14 tips for your new handheld GPS
December 26, 2011 By 5 Comments
If you got a new handheld GPS, I’m hoping the weather is nice enough for you to get out and play with it. Here are some tips to help get you off on the right foot:
Ten things to do with that new auto GPS
December 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Was Santa nice to you? Did you get a new GPS for your car? If so, here are a few tips for using it:
GPS predictions for 2012
December 20, 2011 By 6 Comments
As I’ve been doing in recent years, I’ll play the fool once again, by trying to predict what we’ll see in the GPS industry over the next twelve months. I’m certainly being a bit more cautious than the first couple of times I did this, but it also seems harder to predict things now; I don’t know if that is due to the advent of mobile or because so many of the obvious improvements have been made or for some other reason. I‘m also posting this earlier than in past years, since I’m expecting CES news releases that are under embargo to start hitting my inbox any day, and I don’t want to feel limited in what I can say here.
US drone downed by GPS spoofing?
December 16, 2011 By 4 Comments
The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that the US drone held by Iran may have been brought down using a known GPS spoofing exploit. According to the report, an Iranian engineer working with the captured drone claims that:
Iran guided the CIA’s "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military.
Use TeleNav on your phone without an app
December 14, 2011 By 3 Comments
This is interesting. TeleNav has announced the world’s first HTML5 navigation service. What this means is that a developer can let you click on an address, in an app or on a website, to launch a free browser-based, turn-by-turn navigation service with voice directions. You won’t need to have the TeleNav app on your phone and it won’t rely on other maps your phone may have access to, such as Google Maps. The public launch is slated for early next year, but they’re already letting developers test the service. Pretty cool, huh?
Feds recommend 50 state ban on cell phone use while driving
December 14, 2011 By 3 Comments
In a decision sure to stoke a lot of discussion about distracted driving, the US National Transportation Safety Board has recommended that all 50 states ban the use of mobile devices while driving. The actual statement leaves a little bit of wiggle room, but clearly aims to ban even hands free use of cell phones:
Garmin Edge 200 review
December 13, 2011 By 7 Comments
Hands on with the Garmin Edge 200
Before I got into GPS I used cyclometers to tell me how far I had gone on my mountain bike, which was very helpful when a trail description said something like “watch for hidden trail on left after 3.2 miles!” They worked surprisingly well, although dealing with wires, strapping a magnet to the spokes and calibrating the whole setup was way too complex. Fortunately there’s a new kid in town, bringing GPS accuracy and new features without the need for wires, magnets or calibration. It’s the Garmin Edge 200
TomTom GO LIVE 1535 M review
December 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
Hands on with the TomTom GO LIVE 1535M
The TomTom GO LIVE 1535 M
New data fields coming to Garmin handhelds?
November 29, 2011 By 5 Comments
A recent beta firmware update for the Garmin Montana series brought twenty new data field options to the device, as well as data field categories. You can see four of the new data fields in the screenshot above. The Vertical Distance to Destination is sure to be a hit for the peak baggers among us. Hopefully these will make it to other models as well.
