Comments on: E-GPS Offers More Accurate Handset Locating
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The world will end in 2006. Just as it was predicted in the bible along with the release of Microsoft Longhorn.... :p
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My understanding is that in the early days GPS wasn't accurate for the reason you state, but this was later changed, except around sesitive sites. e.g. military sites
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There are 24 sats (I think) in orbit. Although they could control specific satellites to control accuracy or availability in specific regions, it would be difficult to do it just around specific sites.
Related to accuracy, a company in Europe (Reelektronika) and the US (Megapulse) are using the old Loran-C infastructure (yes it is still running) o transmit GPS correction data from surveyed Reference Stations to their specialized receivers and are acheiving 2.5 meter accuracy. The receiver can also use calibrated Loran which pentetrates the "Urban Canyons" better than GPS (since it is low frequency, 100 Khz I think) for determining positions.
I know it is working at some of the stations in Europe and either is working or soon will be in Saudi Arabia.
Forget LORAN/GPS, use mobile phone providers
did you know about the triangle ping system already? The mobile phone provider has three sending devices ping your mobile phone and calculates the time that the ping took.
Then, from these ping times the position can easily be calculated by drawing distance circles around the towers. Where the three towers hit->position.
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Tam Hanna
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