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 block II satellite from the GPS constellation in honor of the 20th anniversary of the GPS constellation reaching full operational capacity. Happy Birthday GPS!!!
From GPS Tracklog
- ESA Releases Paper on Recovered Galileo Satellites
- GPS Satellite Successfully Launched Yesterday
- GPS Accessories on Sale
- GPS Sends Drivers on Train Tracks
- What is WAAS, and Do You Need it?
- GPS Celebrates 20th Birthday Friday
GPS Tracking
- How You Can Track the Movements of Caribbean Sea Turtles
- 5 Ways to Tell a Teen You Put a GPS Tracker on the Car
- US Fleet Tracking Gives GPS Tracking Tips to Deter Theft of Fleet Vehicles
Garmin
TomTom
- TomTom Telematics passes landmark milestone of 500,000 subscribed vehicles
- TomTom Launches its Traffic Service in Kuwait
Geocaching
- The 10 Best Places in Colorado to Geocache
- How a Geocaching.com Co-Founder Found Geo-Love
- Colorado’s South Park GeoTour
- #PSNoBoundaries Photo Contest Brings International Space Station Travel Bug to Geocaching Block Party
- Inside HQ: Take a Tour of the New Message Center
GPS in the news
- Built in GPS leads police to truck theft suspects
- GPS Voting app aims to get young Canadians to poll
- India: Police help just an app away
- Colorado Celebrates 20th Anniversary of GPS with Milestone Satellite Launch
- GPS Tracking Devices Available for Children with Autism Through the Autism Alliance of Michigan
- Police use baited parcel, GPS to nab mail theft suspect
- What Stand-Alone GPS Devices Do That Smartphones Can’t
The business of GPS
- Russia’s GLONASS Proves More Than a Match for America’s GPS
- GPS Directorate Gains New Leader
- QinetiQ Announces Robust GNSS Receiver for Galileo PRS
Going mobile
- Upgrading Apple fitness apps: What’s missing and what are the alternatives?
- Smartphone navigation is tip of iceberg for GPS technology
- The Open: 10 best golf GPS
Just Geo
