This week in GPS — August 31st, 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 video (above) gives us a look at what navigating with Google Glass might look like.

From GPS Tracklog

Our posts from the past week:

• Earthcaches
• Garmin HUD (Head up display) review
• Garmin Edge Touring series focuses on navigation

Garmin

• That 25% off sale on the Garmin GPSMAP 62 series is now 30-40% off; ends Monday!
• HUD ship date slips to mid-October
• Former Garmin employee indicted for $1 million theft of GPS devices
• Nice comment detailing battery life on 5 day backpacking trip with 62s
• Shortcut to next destination in Trip Planner
• Africa OSM topo map and Asia OSM base map
• Garmin taps QNX technology to create K2 infotainment platform
• New product sneak peek: zumo 390LM clears the FCC, as does this mystery low-power transmitter device that uses a button cell battery and “is very small with many curved surfaces,” so much so that the label must be inside the battery cover

TomTom

• TomTom GPS Watches Voted Easiest to Use
• Introducing the Fresh Fleet Thinking Blog

Magellan

• Magellan Echo smartwatch clears the FCC
• Magellan eXplorist 350H Hunting GPS now shipping

The military’s forthcoming DAGR D3 GPS

Updates

• TomTom sports watch
• ExpertGPS v 4.90
• More updates this week: Garmin fleet 590, VIRB; Magellan eXplorist 310

The business of GPS

• Garmin And TomTom Now Among Top 10 iOS Revenue Generators
• Magellan, Mio and Navman brands survive Mitac restructuring
• Garmin Survived Smartphones and Will Survive Whatever’s Next
• Google acquisition of Waze now subject of UK inquiry
• Garmin Joins Clipper Round the World Yacht Race as Team Sponsor
• Military-grade DAGR D3 contract awarded (shown at right)

Drones

• Predator drone now part of California wildfire battle
• Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs): Marine drones
• 3D Robotics announces GPS-guided quadcopter for the masses
• My drone is better than yours: What ordinary citizens do with drones
• Commentary:

???!…"realtors are using #UAV". The FAA says this commercial use as illegal, but realtors are still pulling it off. http://t.co/CxMzPqWJni

— Eric Gakstatter (@GPSGIS_Eric) August 28, 2013

Geocaching

• Win a New Oregon with OpenCaching (no cache placement necessary)
• Announcing the Victors of The Great Geocaching Block Party 2013 Travel Bug Race
• Geocaching film festival winners
• Master the 5 Ways to “Log Your Visit”
• Geocaching Intro v 2.0 for iOS
• What is Geocaching?…

GPS in the news

• SatNav Error Driver Sentenced
• Phone GPS to blame in fatal wreck?
• Readers from around Chattanooga share navigational nightmares of a GPS leading them astray
• Massachusetts gives GPS firms heads up on low bridges

Satellites and such

• Extra Life for IIRs, IIR-Ms
• Interesting look at some Galileo components
• Globalstar completes their network; still lags Iridium’s 66 birds

Golf

• Golf Courses Use GPS To Curb Slow Play
• If that doesn’t help, maybe a GPS clock is a good reminder

GPS tracking

• GPS device, dispatcher help rescue Jones County woman
• Police find carjacking suspect, stolen taxi with GPS technology
• I doubt that this is really GPS, but rather some form of indoor location tech: Mavs adopt new wearable GPS-tracking devices
• GPS Tracking Reports Not Subject To Confrontation Clause Requirements

Going mobile

• Waze update taps Google as default search provider, tips hat to new owners
• Trapster Hits 20 Million Users
• Nokia reveals Here Auto connected car navigation system
• Strava Cycling App Review
• CoPilot Live GPS Review

Just geo

• Rim Fire Perspectives Map
• Google Maps camera-toting teams map Fla. beaches
• DigitalGlobe Seeks Government Permission to Sell 1/4 Meter Imagery, Plans to Change GeoEye-1 Orbit Height
• Baidu Maps Introduces Street View in China
• This Isn’t Private Information
• Geysir: The Namesake of All Geysers
• Lærdal Tunnel: The World’s Longest Road Tunnel
• Nightmare on GIS Street: GNSS Accuracy, Datums and Geospatial Data
• The Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation
• Yosemite Fire Burns Bright in Incredible Nighttime Image From Space:

Yosemite Rim fire from space

All the news that doesn’t fit

• DC Rainmaker checks out the Recon heads up sports display
• Why Don’t More Professional Drivers Use Traffic-Enabled GPS?
• America’s Best Road Trips for Expert Drivers