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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

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