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 an APE cache, as one was recovered this week in Washington, original case and all! Below, you’ll find some other things going on in the world of GPS this week.
From GPS Tracklog
- Dedicated GPS Devices Are Better Than Smartphones
- Missing APE Cache Found in Seattle
- Garmin Introduces GPSMAP 64sc
- It is Illegal to Use Phone GPS While Driving in RI
- 5 Reasons Why You Need a GPS Bike Computer
- Top 10 Geocaching Acronyms You Need To Know
Satellite Stuff
- Launch of new Galileo navigation quartet
- High-Precision System for Real-Time Navigation Data of GLONASS Ready for Service
- Russian Space Agency May Launch Up to 4 GLONASS Satellites Next Year
Garmin
- Garmin Releases Major Upgrade of Pilot App
- Garmin Becomes #10 Most Shorted S&P 500 Component, Replacing Target
- Garmin Confirms December 30 Dividend Payment
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- China Invents Space GPS for Mars Expedition and Interplanetary Travel
- Thousands Of Dollars In GPS Devices Targeted By Thieves In Orange Beach
- Jumping GPS hurting Uber
- New Penalty Proposed for Parolees Who Disable GPS Trackers
The business of GPS
- Amsterdam and TomTom join forces to create a smarter city
- Ex-employee pleads guilty to embezzling $1.5M from Garmin, Black & Veatch
- A Brief History of GPS—from James Bond to Pokémon Go
Drones
- Nevada UAS Test Site leads UAS detection at airports
- UAV Update: Fuel cells, Droneboxes and hostile drones
- Insitu ScanEagle completes maritime search at Unmanned Warrior
- Ubiqomm and Skyriver team on ‘Wi-Fi in the sky’ BVLOS drone flights
- FAA suspends approval of NavWorx ADS-B units over GPS chip inspections
Just Geo
- Geologists Find Largest Exposed Fault on Earth
- Geologist uncovers 2.5 billion-year-old fossils of bacteria that predate the formation of oxygen
- Modeling offers new perspective on how Pluto’s ‘icy heart’ came to be
- New Zealand quake upended geology, harming tourism, farmers
- Total mass of Earth’s Technosphere weighs about 30 trillion tons: Geologists
