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 the corrected orbit of the second satellite that was stranded by a malfunction last August. The satellite is now in a better orbit, and recently was found to be fit and functioning properly.
Here are some other things happening this week in the world of GPS:
From GPS Tracklog
GPS Tracking
- All cabs plying in Delhi must install GPS, directs Government
- SFO develops GPS tracking system to collect fees from Uber, Lyft
- Spy on Your kids with GPS Shoes That Track Their Every Move
- University of Alberta helps seniors track peace of mind
- Polar launches V650 GPS cycling computer, will cost £174.50
Satellite Stuff
- USAF plans to kick off new GPS satellite competition in 2018
- Launch Prep on Track for Galileo’s Next FOC Satellites
- Counting Down to Galileo
- Moscow Navigation Forum to Focus on GLONASS Market
Garmin
- Garmin Announces Sponsorship of Red Bull X-Alps Adventure Race
- Garmin Introduces GTN eLearning Essential Course
TomTom
- TomTom Telematics Offers Electronic Driver Logs With New Hours Of Service Application
- TomTom named Intellectual Property Team of the Year
- Innovative real-time driving advice lets professional driver anticipate the road ahead
GPS in the news
- Police bust car-theft racket
- Police: Robbers Using GPS, iPhones To Track Business Owners
- Police: Suspicious object found on Greenbrier car was GPS tracking device
- Is Your Car’s GPS Spying On You?
- Farmers of the future will utilize drones, robots and GPS
- Repeat sex offender sentenced to prison for cutting off GPS bracelet
- Missing New Jersey Mother’s Body Found After GPS Leads Authorities to Maryland
The business of GPS
- Renewed Spectrum Fight Emerges between GPS, LightSquared at ABC Workshop
- New Report Considers GNSS Market Outlook 2015-2020
- DHS, NIST Make Progress on Protecting GPS
- HDS International partners with Siren GPS
- Apple Could be About to Devastate Garmin Shareholders
- Ride Service Uber Acquires Mapping Company DeCarta
Going mobile
Just Geo
- NASA confirms existence of massive salt water oceans on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede
- At last, geologists have a theory about why Denver and High Plains are a mile above sea level
- Tourism Economy Thrives Around Erupting Chilean Volcano
- Bright Spots on Ceres Could Be Active Ice
- Geology | Could ants hold the solution to global warming?
- NASA Spacecraft Detects Aurora and Mysterious Dust Cloud around Mars
- World’s first nationwide geological map to go on show alongside tales of father of English geology
