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 design of a new voice-controlled GPS helmet that will provide motorcyclists with navigational directions using augmented reality projected on the helmet. It’s not out yet, but it will be soon. How cool is that? Read more about it below!
Here are some other things going on in the world of GPS this week:
From GPS Tracklog
- TomTom Expands Maps to Australia
- Voice-Controlled GPS Helmet Coming Soon
- Komodo Looking for Kickstarter Funding
- China to Launch 3 or 4 Satellites This Year
- See History through GPS and Augmented Reality
- Navigate the World With Pac Man
GPS Tracking
- College students track Bismarck’s coyotes every move
- Tasmania to host three-year project aimed at saving native animals from feral cats
- GPS tracking helps gardening company save £20k
- Find your stolen bike with a GPS tracker
- San Francisco may equip city fleet with GPS tracking
Satellite Stuff
- 7 fascinating facts about EU’s Galileo satellite project
- A Million Euros Are at Stake In The European Satellite Navigation Competition
- Galileo ground segment back online
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- Bills on drones, electronic snooping are making progress in Fla. legislature
- Sheriff using GPS program to keep jails clear for repairs
- How A $7,000 E-Bike’s GPS Tech Thwarted a Thief
- Detective work returns lost GPS device to its owner
- Police still tracking burglary suspects
- Man wearing GPS monitor led high-speed Fairbanks chase, troopers say
- Greenfield man tracked, taken into custody in Florida
- GPS systems send truckers to narrow, twisting Mercer road
The business of GPS
- Mid- and high-precision GPS market worth US$3B by 2020
- TeeJet Offers GNSS Guidance System for Precision Ag
- ComNav, CGEOS Build First BeiDou CORS Station in Europe
Drones
- We need ground rules if drone technology is to take off
- DJI Unveils Phantom 3 UAV with Indoor Positioning
- FAA Grants 30 More Commercial UAS Exemptions
Going mobile
Just Geo
- Geology Museum to Host Grand Reopening April 9
- DEP Publishes Centennial Update of State Geologic Map
- Midwestern State University Geology Department gets 535-million-year-old rock
- David Letterman ‘Going Clear’ Sketch: “When You Want Science Mixed with Geology, the Answer Is Scientology”
All the news that doesn’t fit
- Google Earth placemarks to GPS waypoints
- Brain Hack Gives Blind Rats Psychic GPS Capabilities: New Technology Could Help Blind People Navigate More Easily
