Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:39:10 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Vladimir Egorin <vladimir@math.uic.edu> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPS time. Message-ID: <3CA80E9E.B091200F@mindspring.com> References: <20020331091304.U40871-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <Pine.LNX.4.43L0.0203311040090.8980-100000@saruman.xwin.net> <20020331.133402.125794917.imp@village.org> <20020331200524.A20933@math.uic.edu>
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Vladimir Egorin wrote: > > Also keep in mind that the US governement reserves the right to turn > > off GPS at any time to selected regions of the globe. > > Hopefully European GPS project (Galileo) will provide an alternative. > It still has a long way to go though. Galileo strikes me as unnecessary, unless the receivers will be cheaper to get the same resolution. The 1 meter resolution seems a little poor, compared to differential. I guess if the U.S. government reserves the right to turn it off, then there's a reason to route around that... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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