+MoonHerb Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 Have a look at this news article : Galileo Article It's either good news (Better accuracy, etc.) or bad news (Two systems, which one's more popular) Mind you we've got to wait another 4-5 years !! ______________________________________________ Please visit our website - http://www.moonspace.co.uk/moonherb Quote Link to comment
+stu_and_sarah Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 quote:Originally posted by MoonHerb:Mind you we've got to wait another 4-5 years !! ...and they might actually get it working by 2035. (Cynical? Moi?) It sounds good - I would assume that GPS manufacturers would have to support both systems to keep in the game. Cheers, Stu Quote Link to comment
+Subarite Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 For more details see the ESA web site. Andy. ---------------------------------------- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov Quote Link to comment
+MoonHerb Posted October 30, 2003 Author Share Posted October 30, 2003 I knew the best way to find out about this was to post details and someone else would do the searching for me !! ______________________________________________ Please visit our website - http://www.moonspace.co.uk/moonherb Quote Link to comment
+phantom4099 Posted October 30, 2003 Share Posted October 30, 2003 It seems the writer of this story is comparing the GPS system of 2003, to the possible Galileo system of 2008. What they leave out is how the US system will continue to be updated. So the comparison is not really accurate. Wyatt W. The probability of someone watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions. Quote Link to comment
Team Tate Posted November 1, 2003 Share Posted November 1, 2003 As an employee of one of the companies involved in it's development, I dont think we (Geocachers) have much to worry about regarding interoperabilty between these two system, PLUS the third system (the name of it escapes me at the moment) being developed by the Russians. The main reason for these new systems being developed in to improve accuracy for air-traffic, war, etc., and the last thing they will be worring about are a few walkers looking for metal boxes hidden around the countryside - there's not enough money it it for them! I am sure that as things progress and technologies improve, there will be new developments in handheld personal positioning anyhow (remember Decca and Loran? - the mariners out there might!), in the same way as we are now on our third generation mobile telephone network in little over seventeen years. When comparing the size and features of mobile handsets from the mid eighties to those that we have now, as and when development happens it can only be a good thing all round! Team Tate Remember - if it's moving, it's not dead... Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted November 1, 2003 Share Posted November 1, 2003 Well at least GPS does what is says on the tin and so developments will be welcome. When will the mobile phone companies realise that we would like to be able to hold a conversation without getting cut off, and that all the other toys they put on should be extra? If they put a games console on a GPSr I'm gonna cry! Cheers, Emily & Neil Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted November 1, 2003 Share Posted November 1, 2003 Well.... I did see a couple of geocachers playing 'Billiards' across a pub table via an infra red link on their iQue 3600's a week or so ago John And should you ask, am I at ease there? I'd answer "Yes. Oh yes indeed". For my heart it dwells in lonely places, where springs leap down, where ravens feed. Quote Link to comment
+Bill D (wwh) Posted November 2, 2003 Share Posted November 2, 2003 quote: NattyBooshka wrote:If they put a games console on a GPSr I'm gonna cry! NattyBooshka, you're gonna cry! The Geko 201 and 301 have 'fun, interactive games' on them. Bill ------------------------------- "Ah, take the Cache and let the Credit go..." The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward Fitzgerald Quote Link to comment
+Cave Troll and Eeyore Posted November 2, 2003 Share Posted November 2, 2003 Isn,t geocaching an inter active gps game? Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted November 3, 2003 Share Posted November 3, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Bill D (wwh): quote: NattyBooshka wrote:If they put a games console on a GPSr I'm gonna cry! NattyBooshka, you're gonna cry! The Geko 201 and 301 have 'fun, interactive games' on them. Bill Hehe... we have a Geko 201... there's nothing fun about running around an invisible maze in a field whilst the locals point and laugh! OK... let me re-phrase that... "any blue hedgehogs or short fat italian plumbers on my GPSr and I'll cry!" Cheers, Emily & Neil Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted November 3, 2003 Share Posted November 3, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Pharisee:Well.... I did see a couple of geocachers playing 'Billiards' across a pub table via an infra red link on their iQue 3600's a week or so ago Was there a billiards table in the pub? Cheers, Emily & Neil Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted November 3, 2003 Share Posted November 3, 2003 quote:Originally posted by NattyBooshka: quote:Originally posted by Pharisee:Well.... I did see a couple of geocachers playing 'Billiards' across a pub table via an infra red link on their iQue 3600's a week or so ago Was there a billiards table in the pub? Cheers, Emily & Neil No... only on the iQue screens. John And should you ask, am I at ease there? I'd answer "Yes. Oh yes indeed". For my heart it dwells in lonely places, where springs leap down, where ravens feed. Quote Link to comment
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