+ICHTHYS Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 I have heard of some changes that are being made over the years to upgrade the GPS satelites and signals. Apparantley some changes will be made to civillian signal currently being sent and over time additional civillian signals will be sent. Any one have good info on this? Here are some articles I found on the internet: If you can sift through the math this article has some good info. http://waas.stanford.edu/~wwu/papers/gps/PDF/EngeAIAC03.pdf Here is another article: http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/a...l.jsp?id=192974 And another: http://www.mapmiddleeast.org/magazine/2005...ct/future_1.htm If you have PowerPoint you can view this: http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SAP/act2004/v...y/am/turner.ppt Quote Link to comment
+JohnnyVegas Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 (edited) The Galileo system has been on the work for quite some time and has been cover in some past threads. By the time it is up and running my guess is that a large number of curren GPS users would be in the market for a new GPS anyway. From the article It is based on the same technology as GPS and provides a similar - and possibly higher - degree of precision possibly higher, This does not mean it will offer a higher degree of precision And with the upgrade of the current GPS system my guess is that Galileo will not offer any more. In some past articles re Galileo part of the plan for the EU was to charge a user fee for access in order to offset the cost of system. Edit ti add: most geocachers are not going to run out and buy new GPSrs. Plus then figure in the number of caches already hidden. They with have been hidden with NON Galileo GPSrs, so the Galileo based GPSrs will not make it any easier to find them. Edited December 10, 2005 by JohnnyVegas Quote Link to comment
+jollybgood Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Well if the trend continues, I've been upgrading my GPSr about every 18 to 24 months. So by the time everything is up and running I'd probably be in the market for a new GPSr anyway. Quote Link to comment
+GOT GPS? Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 More satellites will help improve the Satellite Geometry, but in my case, im at 42 deg north latitude so my accuracy may not be good at times in the North-South Direction, due to lack of satellites showing near the top of the Satellite View Screen. Quote Link to comment
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