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 new Garmin Edge Explore 1000, which was announced this week and should be available in the fall.
From GPS Tracklog
- Sygic Expands App Capabilities With Update
- Do GPS Devices Encourage Recklessness?
- Top Ten Bestselling Running GPS Units on Amazon
- LightBug Solar GPS Tracker on Kickstarter
- Low Cost GPS Spoofing Method Discovered
- Garmin Introduces Edge Explore 1000
GPS Tracking
- GPS Trackers Used in Indian Football Team’s Training
- Louisiana Finds Tracking Government Vehicles By GPS Saves Money
- Proposal would outlaw GPS tracking by private investigators
Satellite Stuff
- Partnership to develop high performance receivers for Galileo satellite systems
- Nicaragua to Host Russian GPS-Equivalent Ground Stations
- Galileo satellites are “topped off” for Arianespace’s upcoming Soyuz launch
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- Mom says GPS device saved daughter during sex assault
- Cellphone GPS leads police to carjacking suspects
- ODOT supervisor planted hidden GPS on worker’s vehicle
- Google Patent Would Collect Pothole Data Using a Car’s GPS
- ‘GPS tagging’ of offenders examined
- This gadget brings GPS navigation to your bike
- Verizon’s Hum Can Turn Your Car Into A GPS-Equipped, Connected Vehicle For $15 A Month
The business of GPS
Drones
- After ‘close calls’ between drones and commercial aircrafts, Sen. Schumer calls for geofencing tech
- ANU’s radio-tracking drone can locate radio-tagged wildlife
- Trimble Launches Multirotor UAS for Tight Spots
- Is it a bird? A plane? A civilian drone?
Going mobile
- iPhone tracker locates snatcher in Janakpuri
- MyRoundPro Magically Tracks and Improves Your Golf Game
- Lost in the lot? Apps locate your parked car
- This App Tells Your Friends You Got Home Safe
Just Geo
- Ted Danner, UBC’s pop bottle prof, donates $1.1M for geology students
- Geology And Ancient Fossils Inspired H.P. Lovecraft To Write His Best Horror Story
- New book on city gravestone geology is a dead good read!
- EARTH — Geology for everyone: Making the field accessible
- Earth’s first digital seafloor geology model
- Earth’s Mineralogy is Unique in Cosmos, Scientists Say
All the news that doesn’t fit
- OriginGPS Nano Hornet Module Powers TobyRich Gaming Drones
- Google Inc. To Map Out UK With Release Of Project Tango Tablet
