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 video is a beginner’s guide to hiding your first geocache.
From GPS Tracklog
Our posts from the past week:
Drones
- Triathlete sustains head injuries from drone; via DC Rainmaker
- Which came from a new drone blog worth checking out
- FAA Bullies Volunteer Search & Rescue Drone Operator
- DJI improves stabilization, tilt and flying speed with Phantom 2 Vision drone
- Yes, Amazon’s delivery drones are real (maybe)
- Drones’ GPS data point to N. Korean origin
- US Navy fine tunes unmanned robocopters
Garmin
- Watch those nuvi 3597LMTHD mounts around hotel key cards (and credit cards, etc.?)
- Rino 655t problems
- Boyd Ostroff points out that the new zumo has an unusual screen type
- Looks like that zumo will be shipping in early May
- Flight Simulator apes Garmin
- Finding humor in Garmin nuvi pronunciations
- DC Rainmaker‘s Garmin Edge 1000 first looks post includes this quote on smart notifications:
They are planning to roll them out to Android down the road, but have no defined timeframe for doing so.
Geocaching
- The latest edition of “it’s a geocache, not a bomb“
And Scrabble's first crowdsourced word is… http://t.co/vXDky4bv1C pic.twitter.com/tlWKho6LhP
— Mashable (@mashable) April 10, 2014
GPS tracking
- Fleet tracking for $12.50 per month, including hardware!
- Does Using GPS to Track Children Provide False Security?
- Alert neighbor, GPS lead to burglary arrest
- Sailing Adventure Ends with inReach Assisted Rescue off the Coast of Nicaragua
- Bush Murder Trial Update: GPS Evidence Links Movements of Victim, Suspect
- Prosecutor will appeal need for warrant for GPS
- Convicted felon allegedly cuts off GPS while out of jail in day program
Going mobile
- Will HERE (NAVTEQ) move to all platforms?…
@jeffcarp actually, our ambition is to be available across screens and operating systems. Stay tuned!
— HERE Technologies (@here) April 8, 2014
Updates
- Garmin updates this week: Approach G8, Chipset types M4 and 426, fenix 2, Montana
- Magellan Switch series and Magellan Active Website
- ExpertGPS v 5.09
The new golf GPS from Pyle Audio
The business of GPS
- Audio company enters golf sportswatch market (see pic at right)
GPS in the news
- Dumb and Dumber, Thanks to GPS
- Some fans headed to Country Thunder music fest led astray by GPS systems
- Hunt Easter eggs with GPS units
Satellites and such
- Ha! GLONASS Failure Inconsequential to Users, Says Russian Press, but…
- Map illustrates ‘Russian GPS’ failure
- GLONASS Blackout Coincides with Loran Authorization-in-Progress
- Boeing Hands GPS IIF-5 to the Air Force
- Galileo Delay Could Save Arianespace from Difficult Decision
MH 370
- There goes the conspiracy theory: Purported Photo From Missing Flight Includes Faked GPS Data
Just geo
- Two volcanic islands merge
- Animation Shows the Shocking Speed of the Washington Landslide
- The rise of the news map, and its dark side
- Build a map infographic with Google Maps & JavaScript
- Mapping Africa: readers fill in the gaps
All the news that doesn’t fit
- New book — You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves (available at Amazon
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The State of In-Car UX - Man Accused Of Running Red Light In Crash, Dashcam Says Not So
- RTK on a Smartphone Running AutoCAD
- The Car Talk guys still prefer PNDs:
In general, though, these days we’d recommend a highly rated portable unit for most people. The biggest advantage of the portable unit is choice. You can shop for and buy one that suits your needs, is easy to use and provides good, reliable directions. And most importantly, if it fails, or becomes out of date, you always have the option of tossing it in the garbage and buying another one.
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