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 Garmin’s logo because the company announced it will be opening new physical locations in Miami soon!
Here are some other things going on in the world of GPS this week:
From GPS Tracklog
- Five Ideas For Missions For Your Trackables
- Garmin to Open Stores in Miami
- Essential Geocaching Gear
- Garmin Rino 650 on Sale
- Are GPS Voice Commands worth the time?
- Lawsuit Questions Employee Tracking Legality
GPS Tracking
- Endangered WA black cockatoos fitted with solar-powered GPS trackers to help monitor behaviour
- New tracking program for Baudin’s cockatoos
- Tracking device found on Bonita woman’s car, new GPS law questioned
- Attorney General Issued a Bipartisan Request to Clarify Law on GPS Tracking – How Will She Respond?
- Pandas set their own pace, tracking reveals
Satellite Stuff
Garmin
Geocaching
- Incredible Geocaching Road Trips from Around the World
- 6 souvenirs. 5 Geocaching HQ’ers. 300 miles. 24 hours.
- Discover Milwaukee’s Neighborhoods GeoTour
GPS in the news
- Hackers Could Heist Semis by Exploiting This Satellite Flaw
- BMW Launches Enlighten App in Cars for Avoiding Red Lights
- Lauderdale beach debris may be piece of Galileo rocket
- Milwaukee plans to purchase GPS tagging program for police pursuits
- GPS tracking leads to dead cabbie
- GPS App Helps Calif. Rescuers Find Injured Biker
- Domino’s launches GPS Driver Tracker tech
- Milwaukee police to deploy high-tech GPS trackers on fleeing vehicles
- Woman’s GPS app guides rescuers to injured biker in Marin County
- Joyriding Thieves Foiled by Tech-Tracked Tar Truck
- GPS ankle bracelet system flawed, say critics
- Toronto FC embraces wearable technology to play better and train smarter
The business of GPS
- Sharper GPS needs even more accurate atomic clocks
- Globalstar GPS satellite signals: easy to hack, impossible to patch?
- Audi, BMW And Mercedes To Compete Against Google In Maps Market
- Toyota To Roll Out New Telenav Scout GPS System In 2016 Tacoma Pickup
Going mobile
- Indian mobile app on women safety sees 24,000 downloads in four days
- Burglar caught after family turns detective and uses iPhone app to track down stolen phone
- Find Your Family, and Keep a Full Battery While Doing it
- Tech Trends: Which GPS Running App Is Right For You?
Drones
Just Geo
- Mother Lode Geology: An ocean trench
- U.S. Department of Energy calls on UNR expertise in geology and geothermal for project
- MSU and MOSS offer birding, geology and mammal courses for adults
- Cambridge museum rediscovers ‘Magna Carta of geology’
- Journey to Mars’ Atlantis: Stunning animation of the red planet’s terrain reveals some of the strangest geology ever found in our solar system
