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 several Spot devices which are deeply discounted for the summer months. Read more about it below!
Here are some other things that happened this week in the world of GPS:
From GPS Tracklog
- How Does GPS Work?
- Auto GPS Features You Can’t Live Without
- Garmin Activity Tracker Sale
- Chimani App to Help Navigate National Parks
- Father’s Day GPS Deals
- Spot Summer Discounts
GPS Tracking
- Miniaturized GPS Tags Allow Tracking of Small Songbirds for first time
- ‘Golden age’ of animal tracking is here
- Greyhound Launches New Tool to Help Travelers Track Real-Time Location of Their Bus
- Scientists track manatees off Georgia coast in new project
- GPS tracking devices have new restrictions under Florida Law
- GPS tracking of people helps national parks decide how to better manage the 2-legged species
Satellite Stuff
- Raytheon successfully demonstrates advanced capabilities of GPS’s OCX
- Honeywell, Boeing Demo Cat III GPS Landings
- Russia Begins Mass Production of Glonass-K1 Navigation Satellites
Geocaching
- The Geocaching Road Trip ‘15 Begins Friday!
- 11 Stunning EarthCaches, and how to find them
- 5 Tips for getting your video into GIFF 2015
GPS in the news
- High-tech agriculture allows GPS control
- Location Intelligence Platform Aims at Local Marketing
- FAA wants to use GPS to more precisely track planes in Southern California
- Globalstar Announces Integration of SPOT With Lockheed Martin Flight Service
- E-Rifle: New device connects Kalashnikov rifle to internet, GPS, GLONASS
The business of GPS
- TomTom Communications trade mark battle provides lessons for the little guy
- European GNSS R&D: There’s an App for That!
- Hemisphere GNSS Debuts Atlas GNSS Correction Service
Going mobile
- Uber is using GPS to punish drivers in China who get too close to protests
- Colonel Sanders Voice Can Now Be Your Default GPS Navigation Voice for Waze
- Smartphone App Now Shows Interactive Map of SD Trails
Just Geo
- Earthquakes occur on moon? That’s what study by Indian geology professor has revealed
- At the Monument: Geology and its impacts
- When Did the End Begin?
- San Diego County’s Backcountry Residents Drill Deeper For Water
- Here’s how South Londonderry Township fixed a 26-foot deep sinkhole
- U.S. mid-continent seismicity linked to high-rate injection wells
- Nevsun Discovers New Massive Sulphide Deposit at Bisha
- Methane detected in meteorites adds fuel to life on Mars theories
- Pope Francis Talks Climate Change, Shocks Conservatives
