Rand McNally Foris 850 review

The Rand McNally Foris 850 marks the company’s first entry into the handheld GPS market. It appears to use the same hardware as the Falk Lux 22 which came out in Europe earlier this year. Let’s take a look and see how it holds up to scrutiny… Quick links More Rand McNally Foris 850 reviewsread more

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This week in GPS — June 15th, 2013

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. Today’s lead image is from an article on trucks jamming up Vineyard Haven traffic. From GPS Tracklog Ourread more

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Load multiple maps to your Garmin without renaming them

I was a bit surprised this morning when I saw this comment… …these days if you choose multiple products to install on your device from Basecamp they are uploaded as separate img files anyway so you do get one per product. So I tested it out and sure enough, if you select multiple maps to loadread more

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Google acquires Waze

Google announced late this morning that it has acquired Waze, the Israeli company behind the popular crowdsourced navigation/traffic app of the same name. Seen by many as a defensive move, Google’s main reason for the purchase may be to keep it out of the hands of Apple or Facebook, although there are other possible reasonsread more

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TomTom Acquires Remaining 51% Stake in MapIT for $3.75m

South African Times Media Group is selling its controlling 51% stake in MAP Integration Technologies (MapIT) to TomTom for R37,5 million ($ 3.75 million), the media and entertainment group announced on Friday. MapIT, which was created in 2002 is the leading digital map provider in Sub Saharan Africa. TomTom already held 49% of MapIT’s equity. This…

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GPS modernization highlighted in new Air Force video

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. Via GPS World.

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Best selling GPS for May 2013

Around the first of each month, we take a look back to see which models our readers have bought over the past month. The rankings below are based on the number of units sold on GPS Tracklog through our various partners like Amazon and REI. On the auto side, the Garmin nuvi 50LM returned to theread more

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This week in GPS — June 1st, 2013

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. From GPS Tracklog Our posts from the past week: Trip report — Northern Michigan’s VASA singletrack Navigationread more

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TomTom Indian Map Coverage Expanded to 7,200 Cities

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TomTom this week announced an update in its Indian map database that now covers 7,200 cities and town across India.

TomTom has also released an update to their navigation software for PNDs in India.

The key features are “Stepper Points of Interest“ (which enable move to next POI within same search), Landmark navigation with new dart icon…


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6″ TomTom VIA 1605 M RV hits US shores

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. Based on the 1605TM we reviewed, this new model has been available in Europe for several months as the GO LIVE Camper & Caravan. The VIA 1605 Mread more

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