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 picture of one of the missing APE Project caches, as the final vote for the fate of the cache recovered in 2016 is going on now. Read about this and other GPS news below!
From GPS Tracklog
GPS Tracking
- NASA’S ‘POINTER’ Tracks First Responders Where GPS Fails
- Federal Agency Begins Inquiry Into Auto Lenders’ Use of GPS Tracking
Garmin
- Yamaha selects Garmin® for new integrated marine display
- Garmin® expands professional cycling team sponsorships
- Garmin® joins BMW® AG as a tier-one infotainment supplier
- Garmin Reports Solid Fiscal 2016 Revenue and Operating Income Growth
TomTom
GPS in the news
- GPS-savvy tourists clogging Lake Tahoe residential streets
- Oregon Inmate who Cut Off GPS Monitor Found in Minnesota
- Experts: GPS monitors couldn’t save OSU student’s life
- T-L Irrigation Co. Introduces Their GPS Navigation Linear System
The business of GPS
- GPS Act Aims To Stop Warrantless Smartphone Tracking Done With Cell-Site Simulators
- KVH Introduces Affordable and Highly Reliable Navigation Solution for Light Military Vehicles
- Chinese prefecture orders GPS trackers in every car in effort to curb violence
Drones
- Microsoft invests in real-time maps for drones, and someday, flying cars
- Researchers teach drones to land themselves on moving targets
- The Brilliant Drone That’ll Deliver Medicine—Then Rot Away
- UPS unveils drone-launching delivery truck
Just Geo
- Geology of Ceres illuminates origin of organics
- Geology Institute: All volcanoes promising in terms of oil & gas
- Geology professor defends creationism in documentary showing in theaters this week
- Geologist discovers eighth continent: New Zealand
- Columbia River Gorge Geology Tour
