Hidden in the Federal Budget: GPS improvements...
Posted: Thu 10 May, 2018 1:21 pm
Most instructional...
SURPRISE SPENDING AND SPLURGES
You’ll never be lost again
If you have no sense of direction there is good news on the horizon because the government will spend $160.9 million over four years to improve the “accuracy, integrity and availability of satellite navigation”. They reckon the new funding will increase GPS to an accuracy of 10 centimetres across all of Australia and its maritime zones, including to areas without mobile phone coverage.
I suppose 10cm accuracy (or the more technically specific term "dilution of signal") is better than my current 3m GPS+GLONASS...
(http://www.themercury.com.au/hidden-cut ... 7fabfa351f)
SURPRISE SPENDING AND SPLURGES
You’ll never be lost again
If you have no sense of direction there is good news on the horizon because the government will spend $160.9 million over four years to improve the “accuracy, integrity and availability of satellite navigation”. They reckon the new funding will increase GPS to an accuracy of 10 centimetres across all of Australia and its maritime zones, including to areas without mobile phone coverage.
I suppose 10cm accuracy (or the more technically specific term "dilution of signal") is better than my current 3m GPS+GLONASS...
(http://www.themercury.com.au/hidden-cut ... 7fabfa351f)