This school tour bus got stranded in Yosemite when the driver followed his GPS onto a one-lane dirt road. Courtesy photo, copyright 2013
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 is the result of a GPS snafu that stranded a tour bus in Yosemite.
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
- New nuvis in stock, Oregon delayed
- DeLorme inReach SE coming soon (oh, and the estimated ship date is now April 15)
- On our GPS deals page we added a Forerunner 210/610 rebate for student athletes
Garmin Connect gets heat maps!
Garmin
- Garmin Connect gets heat maps and OSM support (see image above)
- Brief review of that new nuvi vent mount (see image below)
- I guess this is the formal announcement: Introducing Garmin Express
- Garmin offers $50 credit for nuvi trade-ins; click here and scroll down for list of eligible units
- 2013 g2 Vision® card + Garmin Chartplotter $200 Rebate
A couple more views of that forthcoming Garmin vent mount
Updates
- Garmin updates this week: dezl 560, fenix, GTMxx traffic receivers, nuvi 30, 40/50, 42/52, 24xx, Oregon 6×0, quatix
- Magellan Active Website Version 1.7
- CacheSense version 3.0 for Android
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- SatNav Used to Find Abandoned Child; via Pocket GPS World
- Rolls-Royce Wraith picks gears using GPS
GPS tracking
- GPS follows 8 stolen school buses to scrap yard shredder
- Investigators use GPS to track down truckload of stolen beef
- Workforce: GPS tracking gaining acceptance
- Sacramento Woman Tracks Down Alleged Phone Thief Using GPS App
- Two Nunavut teens found safe after SPOT-enabled search
- Alleged Drug Dealer at Center of Supreme Court GPS Case Wins Mistrial
The business of GPS
- GPS bike computer to launch at sub-£70
- Game golf – GPS + golf + social; more here
- Magellan Switch series coming to China
- Interesting look at the marine segment
- Driving Directions Survey – A Fragmented But Important Market
Going mobile
- Who is Winning the Apple vs. Google iPhone Driving Directions Battle?
- Understanding Android Location Data
- Updating Google Maps for iPhone with faster local search, new ways to find friends, and more countries; here’s a video showing the shake to send feedback feature:
Satellites and such
- GLONASS 743 Set Healthy, Constellation Back to Full Strength
Just geo
- Why Map Portals Don’t Work
- New Hampshire to Consider Aerial Photography Ban
- The great lost map scale; via @maproomblog
- Nightmare on GIS Street: Accuracy, Datums, and Geospatial Data
- American Geographical Society Geographic Knowledge and Values Survey Now Available
- Google Maps geocoding API v2 gets six month reprieve
- Cool Amazon River tour video:
Miscellany
- Researchers Discover Workings of Brain’s ‘GPS System’
Updated GPS reviews
I’ve updated these review and resource pages with the following links:
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