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 Garmin’s newly introduced Forerunner 225, which is the first Garmin watch to include heart rate monitoring without a chest strap! About time, Garmin.
Here are some other things going on in the world of GPS this week:
From GPS Tracklog
- Give Mom (or any woman in your life) the Gift of a Girly GPS
- Looking for a Challenge? Try Benchmarking!
- GPS City Discounts Refurbished Garmin Units
- Amazon Files Drone Patent, Gets FAA Permission
- Garmin Introduces New Forerunner 225
- Drone Uses GPS to Record Your Videos
GPS Tracking
- Cat tracker GPS data reveals Adelaide feline frolics
- Bond set for man accused of stalking woman using GPS tracking app
- Sage-grouse to get GPS packs
- 5 Reasons To Use A Mileage Tracking And Fleet Management App
Satellite Stuff
- Russia, China Agree On Joint Use Of Glonass, Beidou Navigation Systems
- McMurdo Opens Emergency Response Experience Center
- Lockheed Completes Integration of First GPS III Spacecraft
Geocaching
- Join the Geocaching Road Trip ’15 – Earn 6 Souvenirs and sign up here for your copilot
- The Search for the Lost Sin of Greed – A Trackable Tale
- Geocaching HQ Says Geocaching without Speaking a Word
GPS in the news
- Worker fired for disabling GPS app that tracked her 24 hours a day
- GPS Misdirection: Could Your GPS be Leading You Into Danger?
- New FitBit Surge with wrist heart-rate detection auto-uploads to Strava
- Morgan County man in custody after stealing State Police cruiser during traffic stop
- Clash over Fla. bill to ban citizens from secretly tracking others
- GPS trackers lead police to robbery suspects
- ACLU Challenges GPS Tracking for Delaware Sex Offenders
- This GPS-friendly, facial recognition enabled walking cane is so clever
- Illinois Amber Alert takes new GPS technology
- Using GPS Technology for Debt Collection
The business of GPS
- Satnav Augmentation Systems Settle on Common Channels Post-2020
- Hemisphere GNSS Releases Next-Generation GNSS RTK Engine
- Uber reportedly issues $3bn bid for Nokia’s GPS mapping app ‘Here’
- International Working Group Agrees on Common GNSS SBAS Message Design
Drones
- Sky-Watch Partners with General Dynamics on UAVs for Defense
- Exelis and FAA Test Sites to Research UAS in National Airspace
- FAA Selects Mississippi State as Center of Excellence for UAS
- Model Plane Fliers to Get Real-Time, Location-Based Flight Safety Info
Going mobile
- Ex-DEA agent Bill Roche: GPS on Waze app no threat to police
- Ford launches free service app for smartphones
- Want Your Deep Dish Now? Pizza Hut Adds GPS Tracking to App
- New mobile app guides visitors around Lake Tahoe
- Scout GPS App Makes ‘Meet Ups’ Easy By Showing Real-Time ETAs and Locations on a Map
- GPS App LymeMap can detect ticks
Just Geo
- Geology Scene Investigation: An Eruption In 1902 Revealed How Volcanic Firestorms Kill
- Geology Professor Studies Tropical Island Environments With Graduate Students
- Holyoke Community College student finds possible dinosaur track during geology trek
- Geological Hell of Nepal Earthquakes May Not Be Over
- How Geology Gives Rise Repeatedly to Monster Earthquakes in Nepal
- Setting evolution aside, even basic geology disproves creationism
- When did geology open a road for species to move between the Americas?
- Geologist Discovers Plant That May Only Grow On Top Of Soil Laden With Diamonds
All the news that doesn’t fit
- ESA Aims to Map Sea Surfaces with GNSS Radio Occultation
- Qualcomm partners with GE to bring GPS indoors through lights
- How GPS Technology Could Help Scientists Build a Holodeck
