[LEAPSECS] GPS certified for navigation?

Daniel R. Tobias dan at tobias.name
Thu Sep 23 20:40:23 EDT 2010


On 23 Sep 2010 at 12:35, Steve Allen wrote:


> On Thu 2010-09-23T11:59:33 -0700, Robert Seaman hath writ:

> > What precisely is the status of GPS for actual purposes of navigation?

>

> You are in a twisty little maze of bureaucratic regulations, all alike.

>

> You get what you pay for in GPS. There are significant differences in

> the abilities of receivers to notice whether they are receiving

> signals that are self-consistent.


At times, when it was having trouble getting decent signals, my car's
GPS navigation system has told me that I'm somewhere in the Atlantic
Ocean.


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