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 (above) is from a great article title “What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move?”
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
- REI.com pre-holiday sale: Garmin GPSMAP 62s & Forerunner 210
- Black Friday 2013 GPS sales — what to expect
- New Garmin smartphone mounts
- Can smartphone GPS tracks endanger your life?
Garmin
- The Garmin Edge Touring series is now shipping from GPS City and Amazon
- Software updates this week: Garmin Edge 510, 810; VIRB Edit
- Africa and East Africa OSM Topo Maps
- Asia OSM base map
- Garmin steps in a (regulatory) pile of dog poo
GPS in the news
- New GPS game: Stratocaching
- Bath Council bans satnav in taxis
- This week’s award for needlessly alarming headline: Your Old Car’s GPS Can Lead People Straight To Your Home
Geocaching
- Does Your Geocache Pass the D2W Test?
- Get familiar with the lingo of geocachers; here’s the advanced version
Satellites and such
- Nice research shared with our readers — GLONASS: Friend or foe?
- GPS backup plans still incomplete
- Galileo Satellites Put to the Test
- GPS and Galileo delays (follow link and scroll down)…
…it seems China is pushing forward, both GPS and Galileo suffered delays last month
GPS tracking
- Wynonna Judd Linked to GPS Tracking Device Found on Car
- Law firm accused of planting GPS device on Costa Mesa official’s car
- Nevada court weighs arrest of man using phone GPS
- Cattle ranchers track wolves with GPS, computers
- Lost Trail elk mystery solved by GPS tracking
- GPS technology helps southern Illinois responders find missing girls
- Micro-GPS trackers are good for parents, but a target for hackers
- Verizon Expands Asset Tracking Portfolio with Networkfleet Asset Guard
- StarChaser tagging show in action around 0:54…
The business of GPS
- Under Armour to Acquire MapMyFitness, One of the World’s Largest Open Fitness Tracking Platforms
- Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won
- Garmin closes Tucson dog-collar plant, laying off 60
- GLONASS to Be Required for Phones Sold in Russia
- Garmin, OP law firm successfully quash ‘patent troll’
Drones
- FAA Releases Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Roadmap
- Unmanned X-47B aircraft can fly at subsonic speeds using GPS
- Is it Legal to Fly Drones for Mapping in the United States?
Going mobile
- Fitness-tracking app Moves now supports the iPhone 5s’ M7 chip, offers battery-saving mode on iOS 7
- Announcing the New MapQuest Navigation App
Just geo
- Before and after: Typhoon Haiyan images
- Super Zips: Those ranking highest for income and education
- Mapping the world’s deforestation over time
- Tour Builder: Tell your stories with Google Earth
- Meet nonprofits using “Geo for Good”
- Street View floats into Venice
@gpstracklog Hey they added the terrain feature back to the new Google Maps for desktop!
— Richard Howard (@RMHoward43) November 15, 2013
All the news that doesn’t fit
- The Ten Fastest Roads in the World
- Forthcoming review on GPS Tracklog; I’m sure @thecyr will have plenty of videos of it too…
Testing out GPS runner @TomTom Right off the bat slim, light, pebble display, fast GPS fix @gpstracklog pic.twitter.com/nx4459fwwj
— Jim Cyr (@thecyr) November 14, 2013
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