GPS reviews, news, tips, tricks and deals
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. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. This week’s lead image (above) is from a great article title “What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move?”
UPDATE: This deal is still live on their site as of 11/27, so I’m leaving it up for now.
UPDATE 2: It looks like this sale has been extended thru Monday, December 2, at least for the 62s, which is out of stock but can be backordered.
REI.com is first out of the blocks with a big holiday sale, with the Garmin GPSMAP 62s for $199.99
and the Forerunner 210 with heart-rate monitor for $169.99
(men’s and women’s models
available). These are both extremely good deals. The sale runs from today through Sunday November 24, but it is always possible that they will sell out of one or both items before then.
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Gazing into the crystal ball for Black Friday 2013 GPS deals
With so many Black Friday ads leaked ahead of time, these are really more of a sneak peek than they are predictions. And quite frankly, I hadn’t expected this post to go up for another week, but REI has jumped the gun again, this time with a big sale not one but two weeks ahead of Black Friday! So here’s the low-down, starting with what to expect in terms of… read more
SPOT, purveyors of emergency satellite trackers, has announced the SPOT Trace GPS tracker, billed as “the ultimate anti-theft asset tracking device.” Unlike the Garmin GTU 10, the SPOT uses Globalstar satellite technology to relay position information, which can then be accessed by the user via the Internet. Text and email alerts can be set up to notify you of movement. read more
Garmin has announced two new smartphone mounts, one for the iPhone 5 and a universal mount targeted to Android users.
Posted November 15, 2013
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Section of one of the new USGS GeoPDFs
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. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. This week’s lead image (above) comes from a USGS page with some great samples of their new GeoPDFs.
UPDATE: Read our hands on review of the Garmin Monterra.
I’ve had the new Android-based Garmin Monterra for a few days now and have been playing around with it a bit, so I thought I’d share a few screenshots. read more
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. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. This week’s lead video is an intro to finding your first geocache.
The Garmin 2555LMT and Oregon 450t topped our best seller list for the past month
Around the first of each month, we take a look back to see which models our readers have bought over the past month.
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