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 of Garmin’s new OEM navigation core.
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
GPS deals
- ENDS SUNDAY, 11/24 — REI.com pre-holiday sale: Garmin GPSMAP 62s & Forerunner 210
Garmin
- That’s one tough eTrex 20
- Garmin GLO Enables Multiple Bluetooth Connections
- Quarter-turn mount adapter for Edge 605/705; via DC Rainmaker
- Forerunner x20 shortages this holiday season?
- Garmin rolls out a slew of new marine products; including a new GPSMAP 800 and 1000 chartplotter series
- Here’s an overview; and a report from Panbo
- One more marine tidbit: Software Update Brings New Features to GPSMAP and echoMAP Series
- More updates this week: DC 50, Edge 800, Forerunner 10, GLO, VIRB
The @Garmin 2014.30 Map update for North America was released today: http://t.co/LNVq3fqGTc
— GPSReview.net (@gpsreview) November 20, 2013
The business of GPS
- OSM golf course maps!
- What the acquisition of MapMyFitness by Under Armour really means for the industry
- TomTom Live issues hit Mazdas
First Look: Tiny Unit from @SPOT_messenger is 'Anti-Theft Satellite Tracker' – http://t.co/9DGskIsyGx #GPS pic.twitter.com/eM7TTlj6dV
— GearJunkie (@TheGearJunkie) November 18, 2013
Geocaching
- Geocaching improves physical and mental health
- 3D printed caches
GPS tracking
- Pictured above is the new SPOT Trace GPS asset tracker
- Woman tracks down and recovers stolen car using GPS
- Predicting the movements of a giant GPS-tagged iceberg
- Stolen backhoe located by GPS after 30 mile trip to Philadelphia
- CalAmp Announces Interoperability With Magellan PND
- GPS leads to discovery of meth lab
- Amber Alert GPS Available To AT&T Customers For $129.99
- Ross Rubin thinks the FiLIP GPS kid tracker may be a success
- Man burglarized homes while wearing GPS ankle monitor…
I don’t think that there’s any doubt at all that this guy is the last guy picked on the prison Brain Bowl team.
GPS in the news
- You’ve never seen GPS data look this beautiful (image above)
- Companies Look To Protect GPS
- Air Force launches spectrum warfare program covering EW, optical, GPS, and cyber warfare
- Quote from GPS confuses people heading to Hays Gov’t Center…
I have been trying for two and a half years to get the mapping services to correct the directions to the Government Center. So far, only Google Maps has it right.
Satellites and such
- GPS III Prototype Proves Compatibility with Existing Constellation
- GPS satellite approaching 23 years on orbit
- A Solution For The GPS Jammer Threat
- EU Parliament approves €7 billion to complete Galileo and EGNOS projects
- A Russian GPS Using U.S. Soil Stirs Spy Fears
Ugh, so much ignorance by @FoxNews and @RepMikeRogers in this article. http://t.co/uJg6UEvBno #GPS #GNSS
— Eric Gakstatter (@GPSGIS_Eric) November 19, 2013
Drones
- Malfunctioned drone hits Navy ship during training
- Detailed write-up on FAA Drone Roadmap
Going mobile
- Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to support BeiDou; more info here
- USFS offers digital maps for mobile devices
- GPS vs Smartphone
- What maps are included in Gaia GPS?
- How to Connect Cars and Phones
- Munzee version 2.1 for Android
- Waze Arrives on Windows Phone
Just geo
- United Watershed States of America (see image above)
- Very cool: The Forgotten Giant Arrows that Guide you Across America; via Twelve Mile Circle
- Take a hike with Street View through U.S. National Parks and Parks Canada
- Your Brain on Maps
- How to Extend Your App with Talking Maps…
All the news that doesn’t fit
- How some of those new high-tech auto safety features work
- Using a signal mirror; via Outdoor Quest
- Urban travel reliability analysis with consumer GPS data (PDF)
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