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. This week’s featured image is a new luxury GPS wallet that is available from Macy’s. It would make for a pretty nifty gift for someone, or even just for yourself! Here’s what else is going on in the world of GPS this week:
From GPS Tracklog
- Amazon Best Selling GPS Lists
- FAA Grants Commercial Drone Flight Exceptions
- GPS Tech Means You’ll Never Lose Your Wallet
- Tracking Baby Jesus
GPS Tracking
- New technology to monitor athletes physical status during games
- AFL player GPS data could enhance game for TV viewer and boost broadcast rights deal
- Volunteers want a more humane way of tracking illegal immigrants
- US Fleet Tracking Describes How GPS Trackers Can Lower Fleet Insurance Rates
Satellite Stuff
- Satellite Storage Could Exceed $200 Million
- India, Russia to work jointly on development of navigational platform, GIS
- GLONASS-K1 to Replace an Existing GLONASS-M in Six Months
- Salvaged Galileo performs its first navigation fix
- First Galileo FOC Satellite on the Air
- Raytheon completes fourth launch exercise of USAF’s GPS III OCX system
Garmin
TomTom
Geocaching
- Three Cheers for Brazil, Geocaching’s Newest Country Souvenir!
- Viva la Mexican Geocaching Souvenir!
- Geocaching Stocking Stuffer Ideas on Shop Geocaching
- He Said, She Said Holiday Geocaching Gift List – GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast Ep. 91
GPS in the news
- Lawmakers finding Jessica’s Law (about GPS on sex offenders) promised more than it could deliver
- Sex offender had GPS bracelet removed and went unmonitored
- GPS soon to be mandatory for cabs plying on city roads in India
The business of GPS
- Broadcom Introduces First GPS-enabled Device for Satellite Outdoor Units
- Hemisphere GNSS Introduces the World’s Smallest High-Accuracy GPS Compass
Drones
Going mobile
- Yellow Cab advancing with technology, rolls out new mobile app
- Startup promises GPS accuracy for iOS, Android with 90 percent less battery suck
- PebbDrive FREE-GPS, Speedometer, Navigation, and Speed Limit Alert for Pebble Smartwatch
Just Geo
- Your New Desktop Wallpaper: A Fetching Geological Map Of The Arctic
- Geology around ‘Prairie Smoke’
- Geology project gets £7,000 lottery grant
- Exploring geology from Alnmouth to Holy Island
- Digital map drills into WA geology
- Deccan Traps Volcanism May Have Contributed to Dinosaur Extinction
- Ring of Fire Geology: An Overview
