On Friday 22 May 2009 03:48:44 Andrew Daviel wrote: > "It is uncertain whether the Air Force will be able to acquire new > satellites in time to maintain current GPS service without interruption." Considering they're matching all the stuff to fiscal years, I'd say this sounds more like a call to improve/preserve their budget situation in the current economic climate, rather than a technical issue. Glonass doesn't really come into the story as the article is not about LOSS of gps capability, just precision/lock time degradation. There are methods of improving this anyway by making more sensitive/accurate equipment/calculations. GPS became ubiquitous as you could get a reasonable reasonable quality fix with dirt cheap components. Adding a GLONASS into the mix would drastically increase cost, so unless you already have a need for civilian very high precision positioning (or you live really high up North as some of our Scandinavian friends :), I couldn't really justify it. AFAIK Galileo (if it was anywhere near operational) would be a better match as the tech aspect is more similar to GPS so it could be easily adapted for dual-receiving purpose. Maybe this announcement will give the project a little boost :) _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
