The Sigma Rox 10.0 cycling GPS and the Satmap Active 12
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 a couple of new releases, the Sigma Rox 10.0 cycling GPS (available at Amazon
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
I also linked to this incredible deal on the Magellan Switch series, which runs from $79 to $129.
Flight MH370
- GPS May Be No Help in Finding Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
- GPS tech built to find missing aircraft not always used
- With updates: The mystery of flight MH370
- This Isn’t the First Time a Giant Plane With GPS Tracking Vanished
- Is There A Better Way To Track Aircraft During Flight?
- Crowdsourcing volunteers join the search for Malaysia Airlines jet
- Crowdsourcing and Image Analysis for MH370
- Satellite companies rush imagery to analysts
Here’s where satellites have been looking for MH370. Note the focus on airports on Andaman and Nicobar islands https://t.co/o03dlieO2Z
— Ogle Earth (@ogleearth) March 14, 2014
Everyone in Asia seems to believe Washington knows where Malaysia Airlines #MH370 is, but doesn’t want to disclose more US surveillance tech
— Julie Makinen (@Julie_Makinen) March 14, 2014
Garmin
- RV 760LMT now available bundled with wireless back-up camera
- DC Rainmaker’s Garmin Vivofit review
- And here’s a video on customizing the data fields
- Video: Garmin Connect 2.0 overview
- And a video about Garmin LakeVu HD maps
- Class action suit: Garmin Sports Watches Fall Apart During Use, but…
@jaxn @gpstracklog Sorta odd, because the pins issue was addressed pretty early on, and Garmin supports swaps out units still (for free).
— Ray Maker (@dcrainmakerblog) March 10, 2014
TomTom
- TomTom enhances winding roads experience for bikers
Updates
- Garmin updates this week: Astro 320, Forerunner 220/620, nuvi 24×5, 25×5, 2xx7, 2xx8, 2798, 34xx, 35xx, 35×7, 35×8, RV/Camper 760
- ExpertGPS v 5.07
GPS in the news
- GPS steers semi driver into trouble; area power out briefly
- Driver distracted by GPS in morning crash
- GPS Sends Trucks On Wild Goose
- Drunk Driver Blames SatNav for Wrong Carriageway Mistake
- Exelis GPS threat detection capability helped to safeguard Super Bowl XLVIII
Going mobile
- How iOS 8 Will Fix Apple Maps
- Multiple Users Reporting AT&T Galaxy Note 3 GPS Issues
Dude…Where's my car? Next time drop & save a pin marker. Update #GoogleMaps for #Android → http://t.co/XInUmx1je6. pic.twitter.com/vgmvQ06Af5
— Google Maps (@googlemaps) March 14, 2014
Geocaching
- Blast from the past: Geocaching.com in 2000
GPS tracking
- Guy pulled over by cops and runs, but ratted out by his GPS monitor
- Growth business: GPS tracking… the elderly
- Man tracks stolen trailer with GPS, leads deputies to suspects
Satellites and such
- Get a Galileo Position Fix? ESA Wants to Give You a Prize
- Northrop Grumman Delivers Antennas For Next-Generation GPS III Satellites
- GPS III Prime Contractor Solicits Info on Alternative Navigation Payload
Patent wars
Just geo
- Switch Between The New & Old Google Maps
- Gmap4 review: Online Topo Maps and Map Sharing for the USA and Canada
- Watch a river change course over time
- HERE (NAVTEQ) introduces community mapping
- These Stunning Satellite Images of Cities Were Really Made With Data
- Explore America’s most endangered river on Street View
- The shale gas explosion from space
- Adding the new Google Maps to your website with the new Google Maps Embed API
- Street View Driving Directions
- Interesting: Live From Space
- Book: Umberto Eco on the Greatest Maps of Imaginary Places (here it is at Amazon
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- Canada’s Pocket Desert
- Internet use by country
The size of Africa, in perspective. pic.twitter.com/93YiOD4EhB
— History Photographed (@HistoryInPics) March 13, 2014
All the news that doesn’t fit
- Justice Department Can Keep GPS Tracking Memos Secret, Court Rules
- A DC Rainmaker giveaway
- Volvo Doesn’t Trust GPS or Cameras, Puts Magnets In The Road Instead
- A UK-based GPS training site
- Mercedes-Benz and HERE partner to power eCall
- U.S. Congestion Grew at Three Times the Rate of U.S. GDP
- And don’t forget looking at the map…
Texting while driving increases a risk of a crash by 23 times and dialing a cell phone by 6 times #SXSW #RethinkCCs pic.twitter.com/51mrdXT3AT
— HERE Technologies (@here) March 9, 2014
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