
The Garmin 2015 Nuvi Essential Series is the first budget-friendly line that supports a backup camera
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 one of Garmin’s 2015 Nuvi Essentials series, which was debuted at CES this week. Here are some other things happening in the GPS world this week:
From GPS Tracklog
GPS Tracking
- Show Your Pets Love with Tagg the Pet Tracker
- Tracking Area Snow Plows Online
- Oregon’s Wandering Wolf, OR-7, Gets Official Pack Status
Satellite Stuff
- ESA Moves Forward with Galileo
- India to get its own GPS satellites, will be at par with US GPS
- Arianespace on track for further success in 2015
Garmin
- 2015 Nuvi Essentials Boast New Budget Features
- Garmin Introduces Fēnix 3 Watch
- Epix leads the way for Garmin’s 2015 GPS watch range
- Garmin Debuts Vívoactive GPS Watches you can Read a hands-on review here.
TomTom
Magellan
- Magellan Introduces New RoadMate Devices
- Magellan Announces SmartGPS Navigation App Integration with Bosch SoftTec’s mySPIN Platform
- Magellan SmartGPS Selected by Jaguar Land Rover as a Leading Navigation Application for InControl Apps Platform
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- Man stole Xmas tree from officer’s dead daughter’s grave; police track him with GPS
- Would You Make a Hotel Reservation Through Your Car’s GPS?
- Kenosha announces smartphone app for bus schedules
- Reed College uses GPS to track bike thieves
- Redtail Telematics to debut next generation GPS hardware at CES
- GPS tracking helps deputies catch wanted man
- Williamsville schools use GPS system to track buses
- Cork Airport mobile app tracks aircraft GPS for flight info
The business of GPS
- Study Shows GPS Fleet Tracking Saves $5,484 per Driver
- All-Constellation Receiver: GNSS Location Hub for Smartphones with Galileo Support
- Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Among First Partners Of Waze APP
Going mobile
- City police to launch women’s safety app
- Top Ten Paid And Free Travel & Local App Downloads From The Play Store
- 10 Ways Location-Based Marketing Will Evolve in 2015
- Android Wear App with AccuWeather MinuteCast Now on Google Play
- Under Armour’s new fitness tracking app syncs with devices from phones to Fitbits
- Boston Police Track Accused Cell Phone Thieves Using iPhone App
Drones
- UAVs Featured at Consumer Electronics Show
- Drone video sparks public safety discussion in Naperville
Just Geo
- Environment Secretary Liz Truss says climate change ‘is happening’
- Geology: Marine reptiles an important part of Mesozoic life
- North Dakota Geology Makes it Safe For Fracking
- Geology lecture goes ‘25,000 Feet Under the Sea’
- Museum of Arts and Sciences highlights geology and painting with ‘Art Rocks’ exhibition
- New study in Geology shows humans erode soil 100 times faster than nature
- Earthquakes, landslides, and tsunamis, plus other new Geology Online postings
- Vancouver-area homes at high risk of radon, geological gas that causes lung cancer
- Meteorologist will open geologists’ lecture series