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Our top sellers for December were the Garmin nuvi 50LM and the Oregon 450
Here’s what our readers have been buying for the holidays… The rankings below are based on the number of units sold on GPS Tracklog, through our various partners like Amazon and REI. For the second month in a row, the Garmin nuvi 50LM and Oregon 450 claimed the top spots. On to the charts…
Looking back at the biggest GPS stories of the year
How about a GPS retrospective before we jump into the new year? Take a look and see if you missed anything!
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter.
has finally hit the market
Several Garmin navigation apps got Glympse and Foursquare integration this week
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. This week’s lead image is from an updated version of one of the Garmin navigation apps that now offer Glympse and Foursquare integration.
UPDATE: Here’s a new way for owners of auto units.
Garmin rolls out lots of firmware/software updates (terms that I will use interchangeably here) for their GPS receivers. Sometimes it’s bug fixes, sometimes you get new features (though the latter is more likely with handheld units than auto). But for many owners, it’s a mysterious process or an option they aren’t even aware of.
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Time to stick my neck out once again with my annual GPS predictions!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zbZBykJIdJk
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. The lead video is via Urban Velo; check out the end of the video and you’ll see that the track isn’t quite as clean as it looks above!
UPDATED Sunday, December 16 – Here are some of the hottest deals we’re following right now in our GPS deals section:
From a new NASA-NOAA Earth at night project
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. This week’s lead image is from a new
NASA-NOAA Earth at Night project.
Bargains we’re tracking in our GPS deals section:
Even bales of hay are being tracked by GPS these days!
It seems like GPS tracking is finding its way into everything these days; even so, I was a bit surprised to see this story about a GPS tracking device being used to nab hay bale thieves. I guess I shouldn’t be shocked, what with the US drought spiking hay prices to as much as $250/ton, which a single round bale can weigh. Given that, hay theft is apparently becoming rampant.
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get a few of the biggest stories as they break, follow me on Twitter.
Bargains we’re tracking in our GPS deals section:
