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 really cool GPS history app called Next Exit History that we covered this week. Check out the link below to read the full article!
Here are some other things that happened in the world of GPS this week:
From GPS Tracklog
- Amazon Top Ten Bestselling Handheld/Sport GPS Devices
- Scout GPS Tracker to Launch in September
- Garmin Amps Up Aviation Segment With New Products
- Garmin Debuts New Remote Dog Trainer
- TomTom Expands Global Maps
- GPS App Maps History Sites
GPS Tracking
- Rehabbed Turtle Outfitted With GPS & Released
- Rhinos outfitted with horn cameras, GPS to fight poaching
- Garmin’s Vivoactive fitness tracker isn’t for everyone — and that’s okay
- Suspect caught after stealing truck with GPS tracking
Satellite Stuff
Garmin
- Price War May Hit Fitness Watch Market After Garmin Cuts Profit Forecast
- A Long Case For Garmin: Has The Market Corrected Too Much?
- Garmin® Expands ADS-B Display Compatibility
TomTom
- TomTom reports second quarter 2015 results
- TomTom appoints Taco Titulaer as Chief Financial Officer
- Bosch and TomTom partner on innovative mapping technology for automated driving
- TomTom Selected by the University of Minnesota’s Accessibility Observatory
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- GPS data placed pizza deliveryman at fatal hit-run
- Livonia police briefs: Pool cues, GPS taken from car
- Anti-poaching device combines GPS, heart rate and video to stop rhino hunting within seconds
- 9 Investigates sexual predator GPS failures
- Police track theft using GPS from stolen van
- GPS technology helps Hanscom improve air traffic management
- Man accused of stalking, using tracking device
The business of GPS
- New Euro Satellite System ‘Groundbreaking’
- Officials Delay First GNSS Authorization Request; Light-Squared Tries to Leverage Issue
- Premature Farewell to GPS
- Mid and High Level Precision GPS Market by Type, Application and Geography – Global Forecast to 2020
- Federal Cuts Expected in Civil GPS-Related Programs
- GPS Military Programs Well Supported, But FY16 Defense Bills Face Veto
Drones
Going mobile
Just Geo
- Satellites peer into rock 50 miles beneath Tibetan Plateau
- Bryce Canyon announces 6th annual Geology Festival on July 31
- Geology on Ice: Scientists See Frozen Mountains and Plains on Pluto
- Mother Lode Geology: Mighty Sierra begins to rise
- This Stop-Motion Video Is The Amazing Geology Lesson You Never Had
- Kamps: Stable geology is no guarantee for a safe nuclear waste dump
- Chunks of Britain’s geology are being recreated in Minecraft
- Pluto mapper predicted dwarf planet’s weird geology
