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Instead of tri-angulating your GPS from cell towers half a mile away They think satellites 5,000 miles flying in the sky are tri-angulating them?

Instead of tri-angulating your GPS from cell towers half a mile away

They think satellites 5,000 miles flying in the sky are tri-angulating them?

Cell tower triangulation
Satellite triangulation
Fuck You!

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[–] • 10 pts

I know someone that's never been out on a boat in the ocean.

[–] • 4 pts

Or lived before cell phones and the military had gps in the 70s.

Can current gps be used off cell towers? Sure.

But it can also be off satellites.

[–] • 1 pt

phones dont actually need gps at all any more, but gps has nothing to do with cell towers.

BUT youre more correct than you think.

between signal strength triangulation and the sensors in your phone, it always knows exactly where you are, as do the people who can read the data that the phone sends out simply being connected to a cell network.

the whole 'you have no gps connection, live navigation will not work' thing is kind of illusory. you can download your route so 'it still navigates while offline' and it will work out where on that map you are simply from the movements from your phone alone.

im willing to bed that if you get a phone, completely remove its gps chip, and its cell antenna, and messed with google maps so maps thinks you have gps and cell reception, it would navigate just fine on its own no warning... cos im willing to bet thats what google sees. even when your phone is 'off' (you really think removable cell batteries are an issue? or make engineering or design difficult? or less profitable? no, it means you dont have the ability to completely remove the power source from your comms and tracking device should you so choose for whatever reason.

[–] • 7 pts

You are a dummy and do not know how GPS works.

[–] • 3 pts

Well, the early GPS units used in forestry work were functional in the woods long before cell towers went up in those areas.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

the anunacki put alien technology chips in your phone that receives signals from planet nibiru which is the only thing that can penetrate the sky conveyor

[–] • 1 pt

I like this answer mostly because a lot of people will go with it, rather than think through the actual process.

[–] • 2 pts

Sigh. Child. Clearly you are too young to have used GPS before cell phones were invented. I'm not.

GPS - as a protocol and as a set of satellites - works via timing off of satellites.

GLONASS - is the Russian system Galileo - is the EU system that does the same There are others

These all satellite based.

These are all different than the the older ground based systems that air traffic has used in the past (and still uses in conjunction with GPS.)

Now, most cell phones heavily use a combination of GPS (satellites) and cell tower triangulation.

There are companies using WiFi and other wireless protocols to further do positioning systems. The industry is quickly changing.

Odds are: if you are indoors, you are using tower triangulation. If you are outdoors, you are using satellite triangulation.

[–] • 0 pt

s'orright mate, i can remember the shitfight trying to get the us military to even let civillians use it in the first place, then the next shitfight over the fact the public one they did roll out was intentionally fuzzy... sheeeeit n95 in the middle of a city would glitch out every 30 seconds when the one satellite it could see between the buildings fucked off.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Lmfao I work in measurement, precision measurements and yeah, I connect to GPS and GLONASS daily for my RTK solutions. Let me guess, JewAnon?

[–] • 1 pt

So when I'm out in the middle of nowhere what is working