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) should give you a pretty good clue as to my next review.
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
Garmin
- Garmin software updates this week: Approach G6/G7, fenix 2, VIRB Edit
- Now shipping from GPS City: Garmin GPSMAP 64, 64s, 64st Canada; here’s my review of the 64s
- Now shipping from Amazon (GPS City too): Garmin Dash Cam 10 and 20
and Garmin nüvi 2798LMT with Backup Camera
- DC Rainmaker’s Garmin fenix 2 review
MH 370
- Tomnod: DigitalGlobe CrowdSourcing Effort to Search for Missing Plane
- A Startlingly Simple Theory About the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
- Search data in Google Earth
- Airports in flight range on Google Earth
- High-Tech GPS, Satellite Images, Binoculars Search For Flight 370
- Can Tech Solve the Mystery of Malaysia Airlines’ Flight Disappearance? Not So Far
- More on that other plane that vanished (soon after 9/11)
Geocaching
- How to create a massive GGZ file
Magellan
Echo now works with golf, bike & hike w/ compatibility from Golf Pad, MapMyRide and MapMyHike. http://t.co/KqUxTQ7hLB pic.twitter.com/Z9VLcyrOWa
— Magellan Fleet Solutions (@magellangps) March 18, 2014
Drones
- Opinion: Gravity works. Why fear drones?
- (First?) state board to govern drone use considered
GPS in the news
- Uninsured driver using cell phone GPS blamed for bad crash
- SDG&E driver’s view blocked by GPS in crash that killed woman, injured 2 girls
- New Airborne GPS Technology for Weather Conditions Takes Flight
Satellites and such
- EGNOS to Gain Satellite with Scheduled Launch
- What is EGNOS?
- Are You Master of the Galileo Universe?
- Exelis completes transmitter assemblies for first GPS III satellite payload
GPS tracking
- RadioShack Robber Tracked From Planted GPS
- ShySpy bike GPS protects against theft and tracks performance
- A year without GPS monitoring in Orange County Florida
Going mobile
- This is Healthbook, Apple’s major first step into health & fitness tracking
- Track folks you want to avoid!
- Update about FCC Indoor Location Mandate; Wow, I wonder how they are going to do this…
“They would also be required to provide vertical location (z-axis) information within 3 meters of the caller for 67 percent of indoor 911 calls within three years of the adoption of rules, and for 80 percent of calls within five years.”
The business of GPS
- Strange, there are actually companies just getting into the PND market: Coyote Launches New Device with GPS Nav
- Interesting talk with Clark Weber, founder of Garmin Connect precursor MotionBased: Google Watch more of a threat than Apple iWatch says Magellan
- More on the DeLorme inReach patent infringement case
Just geo
- I’ve linked to this before but it’s timely due to Crimea: Watch as 1000 years of European borders change
- Real time traffic reports come to Google Maps; via @thecyr
- Why HERE mapping cars are basically cyborgs
- Trap Street, the Movie
- Maps to Avoid Hipsters
- Trimble Introduces Private Land Ownership, Large-Format Printed Maps
- Testing various web mapping APIs
- How Cartographers Respond to Border Changes
- Taking a Safety Bearing
- NASA Equinox photo
All the news that doesn’t fit
- Awesome GPS quiz; via @PocketGPSWorld
- Volvo’s connected cars could make winter driving safer for everyone
- Interesting indoor location-based tech that made a splash at SXSW
- Smart shoes linked to GPS use vibrations to point you in right direction
About Rich Owings
As always, thank you for this feed. Saturday morn kickoff for me as I head out.