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 Ethyl the grizzly bear, who made an epic 2800-mile trek (over the course of two years) in search of home, presumably. It’s a pretty neat story. Here are some other things that happened in the world of GPS this week:
From GPS Tracklog
GPS Tracking
- GPS to be installed in all public transports in India
- New Dog Training Collar Has GPS Tracking & Invisible Fence
Satellite Stuff
- USAF’s eighth GPS IIF satellite becomes active
- Russia’s Glonass to Provide Brazil With Alternative to GPS
- Four Galileo satellites at ESA test center
- Sanctions Delay Russia’s GLONASS-K2 Program
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- Sailor Breaks World Record Using Magellan eXplorist
- GPS used to track some immigrants caught at border
The business of GPS
- The California Attorney General has issued a consumer alert that you shouldn’t leave your phone’s GPS always on, and walks through why and how to turn it off.
Going mobile
- New tracking app to help women in times of distress but are they useful?
- Fargo company’s app could help drones fly safely
Just Geo
- UW Geology Museum seeking additional volunteers
- Humans are killing beaches that sustain life
- Heavy rain triggers Flood Warning, landslides
- Mars Rover Finds Stronger Potential for Life
- Bizarre Russian rock contains 30,000 diamonds
- Rock library keeps track of what’s under SC
- Greenland Ice Vanishing, Retreat Could Be More Rapid Than Thought: Study
All the news that doesn’t fit
