+Gr8Scot Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Picked up this interesting piece of news on another forum that is of relevance to to SA Geocaching community: For those that don't know, EGNOS is the European equivalent of the American WAAS system that assists ground-based GPS receivers in improving their accuracy by sending a correction signal to the GPSr to take account of atmospheric interference, etc. There is more detailed information in the ESESA (EGNOS Service Extension to SA) newsletter here. At last we may be able to join the Northern Hemisphere in being able to see under WHICH rock a cache is hidden! Quote Link to comment
+Danie Viljoen Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 This is exciting news! It does not give much information, however. Do you know when we can expect this to become active? Quote Link to comment
+Louise_Gerhard Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 This will be great to have this accuracy and just maybe my GPS will be more than happy. It also indicates that I have to go back to all of my caches to recheck the waypoints but that will be good. I tried to see a completion date but none was found. At least we know that it will happen sometime in the future. Gerhard Quote Link to comment
+Gr8Scot Posted October 12, 2010 Author Share Posted October 12, 2010 Seems things are moving along with this project. There is a civil aviation workshop being held on 26th & 27th of October at Emperor's Palace to explain and discuss how it would impact the aviation industry. Attendance is free if anyone is interested. Details here. Quote Link to comment
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