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Apple Maps navigation on your car’s built-in screen
At Apple’s WWDC yesterday, the company unveiled iOS 7, which includes vehicular integration due to roll out to a dozen car manufacturers next year. Basically, this will connect your iPhone to your car’s built-in screen, transforming it into an infotainment center, complete with turn-by-turn (albeit Apple Maps-based) navigation. read more
Hands on Garmin nuvi 2497LMT review
The Garmin nüvi 2497LMT
It would seem typical that just as the weather turns into something approaching spring that I sustain a very serious leg injury that has meant I’ve been unable to geocache for a couple of months. Worse still, with it still heavily bandaged, locations that are muddy, wet or prone to having items that will whack me in the shins are off limits for the time being by doctor’s orders. read more
DeLorme employees testing the inReach (presumably the new SE model)
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 shows DeLorme employees testing the inReach, presumably the new inReach SE. read more
http://youtu.be/chNQW22vVNI
Here’s a new YouTube video posted by the US Air Force that briefly discusses the new signals on the forthcoming GPS III satellites. The modernization segment starts about 3 minutes and 10 seconds in.
Our top sellers for May were the Garmin nuvi 50LM, and the Oregon 450 and 450t
Around the first of each month, we take a look back to see which models our readers have bought over the past month.
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.
The TomTom VIA 1605 M RV
A Friday afternoon tweet is a low-key way to announce this, but it looks like the 6″ TomTom VIA 1605 M RV is now available in the US
What’s wrong with this picture?
Take a close look at that screenshot above. Do you see the error? read more
Moutain biking the VASA singletrack; image courtesy SteveF
I’ve been on the road for the past week, testing the Garmin nuvi 2495LMT 2497LMT and Oregon 650t, while visiting my wife’s family in Michigan. We got in a brief side trip to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and next year I want to do an extended hike there, so that may be a forthcoming trip report. For today though, I want to share our mountain biking experience on the VASA singletrack trail, just outside Traverse City. read more
