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 new budget unit introduced by Magellan. The unit is available exclusively at Costco stores nationwide. See the link below for more details and information.
Here are some other things that happened this week in the world of GPS:
From GPS Tracklog
- Error Discovered in GPS IIF Satellites
- Is Apple Watch a Threat to Garmin?
- Magellan Launches New GPS Through Costco
- Galileo Approves new Search and Rescue System
- GPS Deals at Cabela’s
- Garmin Introduces 2nd Gen GPS Sport Camera
GPS Tracking
- Tracking gives clues to penguins’ behavior
- 10 Best Wearable Tracking Devices for Kids
- Disruptive cloud-based GPS fleet tracking technology continues its momentum
- Satellites used to track, study Missouri deer
- Australian turtle tracking aids understanding and conservation
- GPS bracelets to be used to track domestic abuse defendants
Satellite Stuff
- IRNSS-1D Reaches Orbital Slot
- New Galileo Pair Head to Working Orbit
- Fifth Galileo Colloquium Planned for October
Garmin
- Garmin® Announces Vector™ 2 and Vector 2S – a Dual- and Single-Sensing Power Meter Featuring Entirely Redesigned Pedal Pods
- Garmin® Enhances New and Existing G500 and G600 Glass Flight Display Systems
Geocaching
- Emergency Operator Uses Geocaching to Help Rescue a Child
- You’ve hidden your first geocache, now what?
GPS in the news
- Ambulance officer maps rural properties to save precious emergency time
- Ankle monitoring bracelet false alarm puts accuracy of sex offender tracking under a cloud
- GPS Monitoring of Sex Offenders Is a Fourth Amendment Search
- Accused teen thief nabbed after programming home address into stolen car’s GPS
- GPS leads way to arrest of Savannah car theft suspect
The business of GPS
- Rohde & Schwarz Used to Test ERA-GLONASS Systems
- Calamp Corp. (CAMP) Enters Preferred Partnership with GPS Device Provider, Magellan
- GNSS Markets, Standards, and Resilience at the European Navigation Conference
- Pentagon Slashes Money for GPS III ‘Recompete’
Going mobile
- The app that can predict an earthquake: New system uses GPS in phones to create early warning system
