NYC has the most speed traps and enforcement cameras in the US
Since I’ve been tweeting it for years, I decided to change the name of my weekly link roundup from “Waypoints” to the more descriptive “This week in GPS.” I’m also trying out some different formatting and layout options. So, on with the show… Waypoints 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. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. This week’s lead image (an NYC map) is from an article on the US cities with the most speed traps.
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week (it’s been a little busier than usual; I was cleaning up the deal posts from the holidays and wanted to get a few up to replace them):
- 20% off Garmin fitness accessories
- Magellan keeps pursuing truck market with new 5″ model
- eBay Daily Deal – Garmin Forerunner 110 for $107.99
- BluTracker – Bluetooth-based GPS tracking device
- Garmin BaseCamp Wiki
- December 2012 best selling GPS
- 5″ Garmin nuvi 50LM for $99.99 with free shipping
- Garmin eTrex 10 for $96.99 with free shipping
- Garmin Approach G5 golf GPS for $202.99 shipped
- 2012 – The GPS year in review
Garmin
- A hint that some new Edge units will be announced Monday (image below)?
- Interesting tool to create Garmin custom maps from CalTopo (and it’s US-wide for the most part)
- How to prevent the straight line from your previous location to the start of your track
- Thanks to GPS Tracklog marine author Bob Mueller, we now have a Garmin marine chartplotter comparison chart in place
- Looks like the Garmin GLO has a friction mount and belt clip; via GPS City
- Vancouver Island topo gets an update
- Map of Peru; via GPS File Depot
New Garmin Edge cycling units to be announced Monday?
Geocaching
- 2012, the year in review:
The business of GPS
- Trimble buys ALK, the company behind CoPilot Live and truck-focused PC Miler
- But it sounds like those brands will continue
- Is Apple Plotting A Route To A Waze Acquisition (or maybe not)? IMHO, they need someone better at data integration, like TomTom, not Waze
- Is Google going after the OEM market too?
- Golf GPS patent wars
My GPS made me do it
- Driver turns onto wrong lanes of I-24, blames GPS
- Doubtful: Truck ‘hotline’ could stop trucks from being led the wrong way by GPS; via @PocketGPSWorld (picture below)
Stuck truck: My GPS made me do it!
Geotagging
- Top 10 GPS-Enabled Digital Cameras
- Cleveland National Forest launches “photocaching” challenge
GPS tracking
- SPOT activation leads to NH rescue
- Lost skier at Timberline found via GPS, cell phone
- Another call for guns to be retrofitted with “GPS chips“
- GPS helps Sacramento police find gunshot victim
- Telematics Cuts 200-Truck Fleet Annual Fuel Spend by Nearly $200K
- GPS will help biologists address decline of moose
Going mobile
- Top Tips To Save Battery Life from ViewRanger; via the British Mounatinerring Council
- Car GPS Navigation With the iPad Mini
- The Mapquest Android app now syncs routes from web; via @jeffcarp
- Can Your Phone Find Your Car?
- TrainingPeaks for iPhone review
- WSJ: “Path to Mobile’s Future May Be … Maps”
- Broadcom Heads To 2013 Consumer Electronics Show With Innovations For Connected Car Market
Satellites and such
- One of the best (and simplest) explanations I’ve seen for why GPS vertical accuracy is less than horizontal
- Compass name officially changed to BeiDou
Florida keys bathymetric woodcut
Just geo
- Kort is a game to improve OSM
- Laser-Cut Wood Bathymetric Charts; via Jonathan Crowe (image above)
- Google’s Michael Jones on How Maps Became Personal
- Visualizing cell tower strength with Google Earth
- Trap streets, a cartographic gotcha! Via @OgleEarth
- 2012 as seen from space (sample pic below)
Glacier twice the size of Manhattan calving from Greenland (and that;’s not the biggest!)
All the news that doesn’t fit
- CNET: TomTom’s Lifetime Maps are useless if it takes a lifetime to update
- GPS-informed goggles miss the mark
- How To Prepare Your GPS For A Hike
- Kickstarter: Leikr Is An OpenStreetMap GPS Sports Watch With A Two-Inch Colour Screen; apparently there is a lot of interest
- Russian Dash Cam Captures Moscow Plane Crashing Into Highway:
Updated GPS reviews
I’ve updated these review and resource pages with the following links:
- Magellan Switch – Upadowna reviews this sportswatch
About Rich Owings
I always look forward to reading ‘waypoints’ each week… I think ‘waypoints’ is a perfect name for this weekly feature! Don’t much care for name change though 🙁
Either way, thank you for providing us with the pertinent information all in one location!
Yeah, I’m struggling with Google right now or I wouldn’t have changed it. Search rankings have dropped dramatically. Just trying to make it worth my time to keep the site going! :-0
BaseCamp Wiki link is incorrect 🙂
Oops! Thanks for letting me know. ‘Tis fixed.
Rich,
Don’t quite know where to enter this question, so I will ask it here. I own a Garmin Montana 650 with which I am very pleased. I use it extensively to geocache and as a result I am climbing, hiking, water traversing, you name it. We go for the hard caches. I have dropped my device (not far), banged it and just plain used the “hell” out of it. Is there such a thing as a “tune-up” for a GPS? Something where I could take it and they could make certain it is working properly and/or bring it up to par if needed. I do have a “scratch screen” that works great.
Thanks, I look forward to your answer.
Peter
I know of no such service. Unless you’ve seen problems, I’d assume it is working preperly. These are ruggedized units and built to take pretty rough treatment. Even so, you may want to consider one of these… GizzMoVest case
Thanks for the reply Rich. No, I have not had any problems, just thought there might be a tune-up just as we do for automobiles to make them run more efficiently.
I love the device. I will look into the vest, but it already is pretty bulky.
Thanks,
Peter