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 Google Maps application logo. The search giant announced this week that it intends to allow offline navigation, POI searching and routing through its smartphone app for the first time ever. It’s a pretty big step for smartphone GPS, really. Read more about it below!
Here are some other things going on in the world of GPS as well:
From GPS Tracklog
- Top Ten Bestselling Auto GPS Devices on Amazon
- GLONASS to be Fully Operational This Year
- Tips for Geocaching While on Vacation
- Google Maps to Allow Offline Routing, Navigation
- Open Source Tracker Blazes Past Kickstarter Goal
- TomTom Launches Trucker 6000 in Europe
GPS Tracking
- Louisville includes tree-tracking GPS system in new budget
- Mountain Lion, P-41, First to be Tracked in Verdugo Mountains
- Police to track Northern Territory commercial barramundi fishing operators with GPS units
Garmin
Magellan
- Magellan Introduces Multi-Function Smartphone Box for Automotive OEMs
- Magellan Announces Off Road Vehicle Navigation Platform for Automotive OEMs and Power Sport OEMs
TomTom
Geocaching
- A Geocaching Life in Pictures – Farogdatter – Celebrating 15 Years of Geocaching in 15 Pictures
- The Father of the Geocoin: Moun10Bike
- Supersize My Trackable – The Biggest of BIG (and weird) Trackables
- Add a Side of Geocaching to Your Other Hobby
- “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” Author Talks Geocaching, creates trackables
- A Logbook Apart – The 6 Coolest Logbooks You’ve Ever Seen
GPS in the news
- State Senate to vote on GPS-tampering bill inspired by O.C. serial killings
- NJ murder suspect from Worcester gets 3 years for cutting off GPS bracelet
- Why the NFL Is Primed for a Technological Revolution
- Zimmerman gets GPS protection from Florida shooter
- California Senate passes bill giving longer sentences to sex offenders who remove GPS tracker
- Guided-Bomb Makers Anticipate GPS Jammers
The business of GPS
- Official Best Practices for June 30 Leap Second Published
- EGNOS Hits the Road in North Africa and Middle East
- Geotab’s Fleet Management Telematics Solution Named Finalist in 2015 IT World Awards by Network Products Guide
- Stenbit Takes the Helm of Space-Based PNT Advisory Board
Drones
Going mobile
- Marauders Map: the Chrome app that stalks Facebook Messenger users’ location
- Your smartphone and tablet are tracking your location – should you be worried?
- Turn-by-Turn GPS Navigation App Available Now for Ubuntu Phones, Powered by OpenStreetMap
- Elastic App: meet the inventors of the indoor GPS app that shows you the way
Just Geo
- Mystery of Greenland’s ‘Disappearing Lakes’ Solved
- The Living Landscape: Geology of Lake County
- San Andreas, the movie: 5 Geology Facts vs. Fictions
- North Arrow Completes Ground Magnetic Surveys, Surficial Geology at Redemption Diamond Project
- Rockhaven Commences 15,000 m Diamond Drill Program at Klaza Project, Yukon
All the news that doesn’t fit
