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 GPS tribute to actor Bill Paxton, who passed away this week. The GPS dots that spell out his initials were made by storm chasers motivated by Paxon’s role in the 90s film “Twister.”
Read about other important GPS news and articles from this week below:
From GPS Tracklog
Garmin
TomTom
- Qualcomm and TomTom Announce Plans to Accelerate the Future of Autonomous Driving
- TomTom Touch Cardio to hit stores this month
- TomTom Launches Traffic Data Sharing Tool for Cities and Mobility Stakeholders
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- Austintown police used GPS to find missing luxury car
- Storm chasers honor “Twister” star with GPS tribute
- New book explains GPS for the rest of us
- Sun Prairie man allegedly stalked woman with GPS tracking device on her vehicle, police say
- Supreme Court weighs sex offender GPS monitoring
The business of GPS
- Inside DARPA’s Plan To Create GPS Systems For Undersea Submarines
- Homeland Security spells out receiver improvements
- Deadline Nears on GPS Receiver Testing Opportunity Against Live-Sky Spoofing
Drone
- FAA: Drone sightings by air traffic controllers increasing
- Snap’s sequel to Spectacles: Drones?
- The Invisible Fence That Keeps Drones Away From the President
- Inside the skyrocketing business of drones
Going mobile
- Strava updates its Apple Watch app with GPS support
- Kids’ GPS game brings new fun adventures to Legoland Resort
Just Geo
- Geology of Ceres illuminates origin of organics
- Human-made minerals add to evidence for Anthopocene epoch