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 from an interesting geographic data visualization.
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
- The Earth as Art
- SPOT Gen3 satellite messenger vs DeLorme inReach SE (which I updated with the news that the inReach SE estimated ship date has slipped to May 25
- 2013 Garmin nuvi series traffic is ad-free
Garmin
- More info on Garmin’s .GGZ geocaching file format
- Garmin has posted videos of their 2013 nuvi active lane guidance and real directions features
- Autoweek on Garmin’s futuristic infotainment system
- GPS City is now shipping the Oregon 600; the 650 estimated ship date is now May 28
- My Monterra prediction:
Prediction: Garmin will announce the Monterra in early June, lets say sometime around, oh, June 6-9… http://t.co/hqc9YpJjyg
— GPSTracklog.com (@gpstracklog) May 10, 2013
Satellites and such
- GPS Block IIF-4 Launch Set for May 15; more from Spaceflight Now
- FCC Chief Sees LightSquared Getting Cleared for Airwaves Use
Updates
- Garmin updates this week: Approach S2, BaseCamp (beta), Edge 500, Forerunner 110 and 210, nuvi 2xx7, 27×7, 35×7
- ExpertGPS v 4.88 and 4.89
Geocaching
- Geocaching International Film Festival – Call for Entries
- Very cool — Geocache of the Week…
Mobile
- Using Google Glass for navigation; via All Points Blog
- Study: Distracted driving deaths underreported
- Magellan SmartGPS Apps rolled out
- TomTom GPS apps made it fun to explore Europe’s back roads
- Two GPS Navigation Apps Make Apple’s All-Time Top-25 Lists
The business of GPS
- Cutting edge navigators from Pioneer, but only in Japan?
- Rumor: Facebook in talks to buy Waze for up to $1 billion; via Pocket GPS World
- Mike Dobson says it ain’t worth it
- Pearl Izumi sues Garmin-Cervélo over missing aero suits
GPS in the news
- Your old GPS could be telling your secrets
- NOPD arrests cab driver in rape, citing help from cab camera, GPS system
- 8 drivers who blindly followed their GPS into disaster
- REACH (Oregon) adds low-level GPS routes to eight hospitals
- A different view of the car whose driver followed his GPS down some stairs…
GPS tracking
- SPOT or InReach? Ruminations from a Satphone Owner
- Container Tracking Business: Early Stage But Fast Growing
Just geo
- Explore changes to anywhere on earth over time; more here
- Coming soon? New Google Maps Interface and Maps Engine Lite
- Map: How much hospitals charge for the same procedure; via Google Maps Mania
- For cyclists: Flat Route Finder; via Google Geo Developers
- Street View guessing game; via @ogleearth
- 10 things you didn’t know about Google Maps and Google Earth
- YouTube Trends Map
- Spatial Orientation and the Brain: The Effects of Map Reading and Navigation
- Interactive: The 50 Largest Ports in the World; via @GPSGIS_Eric
- Visualizing world population by latitude and longitude
All the news that doesn’t fit
- OpenStreetMap launches new map editor
- Jonathan Crowe chimes in about it
- A Bluetooth speaker that gives GPS directions in 12 languages? Here’s the product page
- Lowrance Product Emulators; via Laptop GPS World
- Eight features that a 5-star GPS navigator should have
- Beer drone using GPS will deliver frosty brew at music festival
- Thomas Thomas:
http://youtu.be/RRBuw7UTTXw
Updated GPS reviews
I’ve updated these review and resource pages with the following links:
- Garmin Forerunner 610 – ZDNet reviews this GPS sportswatch
About Rich Owings
Rich wrote:
“Prediction: Garmin will announce the Monterra in early June, lets say sometime around, oh, June 6-9…”
So here we are on June 10…. Where’s the Monterra? 😉
Yep, I missed that one, huh? Maybe they’ll announce it at Outdoor Retailer.