Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/gps-tracker-times-two
The 25-year-old resident of San Jose, California, says he found the first one about three weeks ago on his Volvo SUV while visiting his mother in Modesto, about 80 miles northeast of San Jose. After contacting Wired and allowing a photographer to snap pictures of the device, it was swapped out and replaced with a second tracking device. A witness also reported seeing a strange man looking beneath the vehicle of the young man’s girlfriend while her car was parked at work, suggesting that a tracking device may have been retrieved from her car.
I wonder what kind of hubbub it would cause if someone put a tracker in the tracker and figured out where it went when it got retrieved?
Arduino GPS System | Sean Carney's Website
http://www.seancarney.ca/projects/arduino-gps-receiver/arduino-gps-system
"A fully functional GPS receiver with the ability to display the current location, heading, speed, average speed and maximum speed, the distance traveled, the bearing, distance and ETA for a way-point, and the date and time."
JSON Location Tracker - PreCentral Forums
http://forums.precentral.net/homebrew-apps/225300-json-location-tracker.html
"This app is a single card that controls all the aspects of posting location data to a website: the post URL, the speed of GPS reading collection, and the size of the buffer."
GPS-led travel goes amiss; 3 Ore. parties rescued - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100102/ap_on_hi_te/us_stranded_motorists
"If you are following your GPS and all of a sudden you find yourself in the middle of nowhere with snow all around, don't go there. Turn around."
Self-Steered Tractors and UAVs: Future Farming Is (Finally) Now | Wired Science | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/precisionfarming
"The new precision farmers are hacking together a way of making food in which the virtual and physical worlds are so tightly bound that having his tractor steered by GPS-guidance with inch-level accuracy is ho-hum. "
A new (and different) geo platform - (BlockChalk Blog)
http://blog.blockchalk.com/post/176373034/a-new-and-different-geo-platform
"We’ve just released a brand new API for BlockChalk. It’s very easy to learn and use: requests are made via HTTP GET and POST, and data is provided in XML, JSON, and RSS formats.
These new interfaces enable developers to do nearly everything that you can do at http://blockchalk.com. It’s now possible to build client applications, mash-ups, and other tools based on BlockChalk geolocation data and services."
Car Navigation Map in Canvas
http://ernestdelgado.com/public-tests/canvas-gpsmap
"Taking the code made by Jacob on his Mario Kart demo I thought why not give it a try using the tiles of Yahoo or Google maps to create the same effect as in the GPS systems"
Ultrafit: Tapping his way along the Appalachian Trail
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/11345566.html
"With the help of a voice-enabled GPS, Minneapolis attorney Mike Hanson, who is blind, is training for the hike of a lifetime." Seems inspiring, yet ill-fated.
Navigating With Feedback From Fellow Drivers - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/technology/circuits/18basics.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=788b2c4937539d23&ex=1350360000&partner=rssuserland
"There’s this long chain of cars up ahead. What if the cars could talk to one another?"
geocoder.us: a free US address geocoder
http://geocoder.us
"find the latitude & longitude of any US address - for free"
Forerunner 201
http://www.garmin.com/products/forerunner201
"The Forerunner™ 201 offers athletes an easy-to-read display, ergonomic wristband, and integrated GPS sensor that provides precise speed, distance, and pace data. It's a compact, lightweight, accurate training assistant with performance tracking, auto-l