Coming to the US?
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 shows some handheld GPS receivers from the Chinese company BHCnav, which seems to have some interest in the US market. They say they have US maps, but I haven’t heard back from them as to what type.
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
And I posted a new Amazon handheld GPS sale
Garmin
- Garmin HUD estimated ship date: August 24
- Garmin Vector Power Pedals due in September
- From Garmin earnings call, re: outdoor segment: “There will be ongoing expansion into new adjacent markets.”
- Makes me wonder what?
TomTom
- New TomTom RIDER
now shipping
- TomTom says don’t use Home for backup; use your computer’s file explorer instead
Updates
- Software updates this week: DeLorme inReach SE; Garmin aera, dezl 560, Express, nuvi 24xx, Oregon 6xo
Satellites and such
- Good read: DOD Seeks Options for Forging Ahead on GPS III
- Russian Officials Concerned over Reduced GLONASS Funding
- The European Commission Plans Remote Sensing Satellites and Free Access to their Data
- Radar gun spots GPS jammers
- Spoofing on the High Seas:
Geocaching
- Geocacher Injured In Mountain Fall
- Building a Better Mousetrap:
Careful with that cache!
Drones
- FAA approves first drones for commercial operations in US airspace
GPS tracking
- GPS betrays con man suspected of murder
- Used car dealer’s secret weapon: A GPS for the repo man
- San Francisco Cyclist Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter; via DC Rainmaker
- GPS track finds car down ravine
- Federal appeals court rules search warrants not needed to seize cellphone records
- Parole alerts drop as Calif. refines GPS tracking, but…
- O.C. terminates GPS firm for failing to track probationers
GPS in the news
- Police: Driver in fatal Cayuga County crash distracted by GPS
- Foreign airlines urged to use GPS for SFO landings
The business of GPS
- Garmin and TomTom are in the top ten grossing mobile apps (excluding games)
- Garmin Reports Strong Second Quarter 2013 Results and Maintains Full Year Outlook (Garmin news release); here the PDF earnings report; More discussion…
- Garmin sees sales, income fall, but impresses market anyway
- Garmin Beats on Both Top and Bottom Lines
- New products buoy Garmin’s revenue, lifting its stock price
- Garmin to get into activity monitors?…
Garmin investor call re activity monitors (i.e. FitBits): "We feel like we have things we can bring to that market in our own special way".
— Ray Maker (@dcrainmakerblog) July 31, 2013
Going mobile
- VerySpatial parlays their road trip into a review of apps and maps
- A good tip:
Use Google Now's "Navigate to…" function and your complaints about the interaction needed to start Google Navigation will disappear.
— Jeff Carpenter (@jeffcarp) August 3, 2013
Just geo
- Linking up Foursquare and OpenStreetMap editing
- Making high-quality movies with Google Earth
- What the imagery dates really mean in Google Earth
- Geo for Good User Summit 2013
- Google Lat Long: Introducing “Views” – A new way to contribute your 360° photo spheres to Google Maps (screenshot below)
Screenshot from Google Maps Views page
All the news that doesn’t fit
- Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP disaster barely avoided; via Outdoor Quest
- Most Popular Car GPS Unit: Your Smartphone
- How Long Before Our Cars Can Talk To Each Other?
- Another INRIX report tying regional traffic patterns to the economy
- And here is what their control center looks like
- An introduction to inertial navigation systems
About Rich Owings
> Rich wrote:
> Makes me wonder what?
Personally, I can hardly wait to see Garmin’s new Bowling, Treadmill and Stretching GPS devices! The the Billiards GPS looks really cool. 😀