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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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[–] • 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.