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Voluntary Recall on SPOT Messengers

December 16, 2009

SPOT – the company behind the consumer-friendly SPOT Satellite GPS Messengers – has announced a voluntary recall of their newer, smaller unit, the SPOT-2. According to a statement on their web site, SPOT says some users have been having unsatisfactory experiences with both the battery life and messaging functions on the new units, and they [...]

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Review: AccuTerra for iPhone

December 15, 2009

Earlier this year, I went up to Big Bear for some snowshoeing. I went on the Pine Knot Trail, and while it was fun, I definitely got lost more than I like to when I’m in the middle of the woods – both due to the snow covering most of the trail junctions and a [...]

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Station Fire Image from Space

November 25, 2009

If you were wondering exactly which areas within the Station Fire burn area were burned and which were spared, you can thank NASA for giving us some information. On November 19th, an unmanned Predator B drone flew over the Station Fire burn area and took detailed images with an Autonomous Modular Scanner. Unfortunately, the picture’s [...]

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GPS Losing Accuracy?

May 18, 2009

A reader at a Mac news site stumbled upon a Government Accountability Office report from the end of April noted that the U.S. Air Force is currently about 3 years behind in their scheduled maintenance and of the 24-satellite system that lets us all know exactly where we are on the globe. The GAO office [...]

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iPhone Maps Update

March 18, 2009

Well, we didn’t get terrain view … at least not yet. But the upcoming iPhone software update did provide some potentially exciting news for those who like to take their Jesus Phones onto the trail with them … although we’ll have to rely on other developers to do the heavy lifting. Up until now, applications [...]

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Will the iPhone Update Improve Outdoorsy Uses?

March 16, 2009

Mac Addicts and gadget lovers of all stripes will be glued to their liveblogs tomorrow, as Apple stages an event to unveil the latest operating system version of the iPhone. The blogosphere probably won’t be able to sleep tonight, dreaming of should-already-have-’ems like cut and paste and MMS — or, in some cases, long-shot dreams [...]

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GPS Will Be Everywhere

February 19, 2009

Engadget picked up on a Google-translated page from Epson, highlighting their new joint venture with Infineon, the XPOSYS assisted-GPS chip, which is slated for mass production for consumer electronics this year. OK, you say. What’s all this mean? Well, an assisted-GPS chip, or a-GPS chip, is the same kind of chip that’s in mobile devices [...]

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nPower PEG Lets You Hike & Charge

January 22, 2009

The main thing all hikers do is hike, obviously. One of the main things modern hikers do is hope the batteries on their GPS unit don’t crap out in the middle of their track. Stitching those things together when you get home can be kind of a pain. But now, a new device aims to [...]

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Garmin 24k Map Update

July 23, 2008

Reader Bruce was poking around a post I did on free Garmin-compatible map alternatives from a while back. In the post, I wrote that I hadn’t bought any MapSource maps for my GPS unit for three reasons: 1. You can’t transfer maps from a National Geographic Topo program onto the Garmin units and I HATE [...]

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New Garmin Leaked?

July 10, 2008

A few days ago, GPS Tracklog — my favorite site for keeping up on what’s new in the satellite-based locationing world — got some info and links to a buy.com page listing the as-of-then unheard of Garmin Oregon unit, the heir apparent to their Colorado Series. No images of the theoretical unit, but according to [...]

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