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 video shows Google Earth 7.1 support for Leap Motion.
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
- Boston bombers were tracked by GPS
- Feds issue distracted driving guidelines for built-in navigation
- Magellan SmartGPS review
Updated release dates
- Garmin Approach S2: Now shipping from Amazon
and GPS City
- DeLorme inReach SE: GPS City is now estimating May 8
- Garmin nuvi 3597LMTHD: Now shipping from GPS City
- Garmin Oregon 600 series: Now shipping from REI.com
; GPS City is showing May 5
- Garmin quatix; Now shipping from GPS City
GPS in the news
- GPS shortcut leaves job seeker on submerged car’s roof
- Driver following GPS caused wrong way crash on 690 off-ramp
- GPS to blame for mulch spillage on W Road?
- Glitch in GPS causes problems for Burgaw neighbors and truck drivers
- Bill Gates: Satellites and GPS Are Fighting Polio
TomTom
- DC Rainmaker: Initial thoughts on the newly announced TomTom GPS Triathlon Watch
- TomTom sports GPS watches – first look
- Follow TomTom on LinkedIn for a chance to win the watch
Garmin
Magellan
DeLorme
- inReach SE Satellite Communicator promo video
Updates
- Garmin updates this week: fenix; nuvi 24×5, 25×5, 34xx, 35xx
- ExpertGPS v 4.85 and 4.86
GPS tracking
- Thieves plant and use GPS tracking devices to hit home when owner gone?
- Coffee machine satnav considered after theft; via @gpsnewsreviews
- Fairbanks man rescued after breaking both legs on mountain trek
- Sex offender cuts off GPS tracking device; takes shower in stranger’s home
- Garmin fleet 590 picks up support; meanwhile Lojack fleet tracking partners with TomTom
- Congress Urged to End Legal ‘Chaos’ Around GPS Warrants
Geocaching
- 5 reasons you should try geocaching with your kids
- REI on How to Get Started Geocaching; via Geocaching Journal
- What a Red Geocaching Wrench Means to You
- Paranormal Author Merges Mystery with Travel Bugs; via @cachemania
- Here are the books
- CITO 2013 – It Takes a Village
- And the final numbers:
Final #CITO numbers – 12,193 geocachers helped clean up our playground (the earth) last weekend & #EarthDay in >640 events. #ThankYou!
— Geocaching Dotcom (@GoGeocaching) April 25, 2013
Satellites and such
- Time to Hit Warp Speed, Galileo
- North Korea’s GPS Jamming Prompts South Korea to Endorse Nationwide eLoran System
- Q+A: What Is the Future of GPS? Are We Too Dependent?
- GNSS updates from GPS World
- Galileo Now Tells UTC Time
- Advanced GPS/ GNSS Signals and Systems Course
The business of GPS
- TomTom reports first quarter 2013 results
- The company is still defensive over Apple Maps, says smartphones not a threat
- This report highlights them turning from navigation market
- Global shipments of PNDs fell 15 percent to 28 million units in 2012 (PDF)
- Germany Fines Google Over Street View Data Collection; Calls For Tougher Financial Penalties
- Google patent details augmented reality overlay for sat nav…
From the Google patent filing
Just geo
- Cool animated map of the mean center of US population by decade; via Google Maps Mania
- Nice National Scenic Trail infographic
- Shortest International Borders
- America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2013; via Google Maps Mania
- How about some pics of the photorealistic atmosphere or starry skies in Google Earth?…
Image via Google Earth Blog
Image via Google Earth Blog
All the news that doesn’t fit
- INRIX ranks 10 worst cities and roads for traffic
- Micro-satellites bringing near real-time imagery
- Twitter Testing New Local Discovery Features
- Common sense emergency survival shelters; via via Outdoor Quest
- Deep space GPS
- Brain’s ‘GPS’ gets us from here to there
- Sony Intros Digital Recording Binoculars with Embedded GPS…
Sony DEV-50V GPS binoculars
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