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 world’s smallest cycling GPS which was announced by Lezyne this week. It will be available in the US next month.
Here are some other things that happened this week in the world of GPS:
From GPS Tracklog
- GPS May Be To Blame for Accident
- Lezyne Launches World’s Smallest Cycling GPS
- TomTom GO Mobile Launched for Android
- Satellite Launch Roundup
- DARPA Working on GPS Successor
- TomTom Traffic Analyzes Evening Congestion
GPS Tracking
- Eelink Launches New Waterproof GPS Vehicle Tracker TK 119
- GPS technology helps Scientists to See Pandas not lonely
- Zoologists tap into GPS to track badger movements
- How tracking devices are keeping Alzheimer’s patients safe
- TrackR vs. Tile: The Lost-and-Found Face-Off
- GPS devices used to track sheep grazing habits
- Delta debuts GPS pet tracker to ensure dogs have a nice trip
Satellite Stuff
- Galileo E1, E5a Performance for Multi-Frequency, Multi-Constellation GBAS
- First Launch of GLONASS-K2 Satellite Planned for 2018
Garmin
- Garmin Ltd. Schedules Its First Quarter 2015 Earnings Call
- Introducing the Garmin Delta XC Series: Bringing New Features to its Popular Line of E-Collars for Dogs
- Tagging dementia patients – is this right or wrong?
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- SPOT Satellite Locator Gained 55,000 Customers in 2014
- Iowa law tackles use of GPS for stalking
- High court orders review of sex offender GPS monitoring
- U.S. Supreme Court: GPS Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure
- New technology has some Hertz renters concerned about privacy
- GPS tracking helps officers catch suspect
- High court: Sex offender can challenge GPS monitoring
- Westlake brothers indicted for placing GPS tracker on estranged wife’s car
- GPS units meant to slow speeding sheriffs turned off
The business of GPS
- Five Charged in GLONASS Embezzlement
- Russia, Europe to Create Common Road Safety Space
- UK Space Agency Awards SBAS Africa Contract to Avanti
