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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 a new feature in the updated version of Google Maps.
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
- UPDATED: Holiday GPS deals at Amazon
- UPDATED: Garmin GPSMAP 62 and 62stc on sale
- Garmin’s mobile fragmentation problem
Garmin
- Detailed info on Garmin handheld data fields; via Groundspeak Forums
- Apparently Garmin Rinos break at the antenna cover ; here is a preventative solution
- Now shipping: Approach S4
, Forerunner 220
Magellan
- Magellan wants your feedback to improve their manuals
- Looks like Magellan is up to something…
Mind blown about new class of navigation devices @cloudmade is building with @magellangps #connectedcar
— Juha Christensen (@JuhaC) December 12, 2013
TomTom
- Is TomTom dumbing down their new models?
Updates
- Software updates this week: Garmin Approach S4, fenix/D2/Tactix (beta), nuvi xxx7/xxx8, VIRB Edit; Magellan eXplorist 110/310
- Also, the Magellan Echo got an update
- ExpertGPS v 4.93
The business of GPS
- Google’s Road Map to Global Domination
- Google’s Ingress to become a platform for other augmented reality games
GPS tracking
- Does probable cause make warrantless GPS tracking okay?
- Wynonna may have placed GPS on Ashley Judd’s car
- FindMe 911 Coalition Urges FCC to Require Accurate Indoor Locating
- Police: GPS Anti-Theft Device Catches Would-Be Drug Snatcher
- Senator pushes for controls on cellphone tracking
- Members of Congress Ask AG Holder to Release Justice Department’s GPS Tracking Memos
- Teen thugs in DC run wild — even while wearing GPS ankle bracelets
- The pilot of the plane below used his DeLorme inReach SE to let his wife know he was okay…
Photo courtesy Will Johnson via DeLorme
Geocaching
- Locus Map Android app reviewed
GPS in the news
- Could “Enhanced GPS” Sensors Forecast the Next Fukushima?
- GPS stations key to California’s quake warning system
- We’re Jamming: GPS Weakness Could Sink Wireless
Drones
- UAV Challenges, Pluses and Minuses
- Deutsche Post shows off its Paketkopter drone delivery service in Germany
- UAS Takes Autism to the Sky: via All Points Blog
- Quadrocopter drone recovers from failures without skipping a beat:
Satellites and such
- Broadcom Offers GNSS Location Chip with BeiDou Support
- Galileo Achieves First Airborne Tracking
- Lockheed Wins $201 Million GPS III Satellite Contract
Going mobile
- How to Fix Galaxy S3 GPS Problems
- New Version of Waze Released
- skobbler for iOS updated
- If you use IFTTT and an iPhone, you might want to check this out
- Google Santa Tracker Android app
Just geo
- Create your own Street View
- No Old Maps Actually Say ‘Here Be Dragons‘
All the news that doesn’t fit
- Family lost in Nevada wilderness kept calm and warm before rescue
- Another geo-game
- Apple Driving Indoor Location Revolution With iBeacons In All Its 254 Stores
- Qualcomm releases proximity beacons that track Android and iOS shoppers
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