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 picture of the aurora from space. Scientists have begun to study how the Ionosphere interferes with GPS. You can read more about it below.
Here are some other things that happened in the world of GPS this week:
From GPS Tracklog
- TomTom Announces Several New Business Deals
- GPS Trivia Quiz
- Top 10 Non-Garmin Auto GPS
- GPS App Helps Those in Need
- NASA Ionosphere Study to Improve GPS
- Commercial Galileo Location Service Announced
GPS Tracking
- Kids GPS Tracking Devices: Should You GPS Your Kids?
- Tracking bald eagles in coastal North Carolina
- New project aims to track rare swans as they migrate
- Making the case for luggage tracking
Satellite Stuff
- Satellite system vulnerability still a concern
- GLONASS zero in on sites for joint projects in India
- BeiDou Numbering Presents Leap-Second Issue
- Feature: Drop-testing general relativity, Galileo’s way
Garmin
- Garmin Pilot Optimizes Charts and Maps for Helicopter Operators
- Garmin Announces Sponsorship of Professional Snowboarders and 2015 X-Games Gold Medalists Mark McMorris and Silje Norendal
Geocaching
- Don’t Miss Out on Pi Day! Top Tips for Mystery Caches
- 5 Geocaching Dreams — And How to Interpret Them
- Want a Reward for Finding Geocaches? Keep Reading…
- Connect with Geocachers from Around the World
- Attend the Last Geocaching Block Party
GPS in the news
- Home invasion, other charges, dropped against West Springfield man, thanks to GPS tracking device
- HTC partners with Under Armour to launch GPS-enabled fitness tracker
- GPS Jammers, Other Maritime Cyber Security Threats Discussed At Seminar
- GPS in McMurdo Transmitter Makes Finding Planes Easier
- Battling bike theft, Take 2: GPS bike trackers finally make their debut
- Not so smooth criminal: Robber busted by GPS tracking device
- Salem County improves winter storm response with GPS systems
The business of GPS
- House OKs creating GPS tracking offense in KY
- Using GPS to track people added to Oklahoma stalking law
- Parole and Probation Defend Bill That Would Track Offenders With GPS in NV
- GPS serves a pivotal role in big data stickiness
Going mobile
- Top Running Apps – Review
- Drunk? This app stops you losing your stuff
- Google Announces New Maps Roads API for Developers
Just Geo
- New mineral named for former Kent State geology professor
- The geology of Lake Superior’s ice caves
- Global Oil And Gas Giants Send Geologists To Clare
- APSU geology and biology students help restore endangered ecosystems
- Exploration Is Multidisciplinary: Exploring the Relationships Between Geologists and Biologists
- Chile Gives Us A Lesson in Plate Tectonics
All the news that doesn’t fit
- The Failed Attempt to Destroy GPS: a history of a 1992 attack, and satellite navigation
- Positioning in Challenging Environments Using Ultra-Wideband Sensor Networks
