May 17, 2007

Waypoints - May 17, 2007

Welcome to the Mother of all Waypoints edition of Waypoints, for there is a ton of news to report. That will teach me to go 12 days without doing this!

GPS craziness across the pond

  • Care to inject your kids with a GPS tracking chip?
  • You may have already seen this -- girl drives onto train track, stops, gets hit by train. Blames her GPS of course.

TomTom

Garmin

Other GPS Hardware

GPS satellites

GPS and cell phones

Do it yourself

Maps, data and software

GPS and Macs

Virtual globes

Updated reviews

All the news that don't fit

May 17, 2007 6:36:40 PM | Waypoints

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