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MrWrock t1_j5rcfvg wrote

Reply to comment by Volcan_R in TIL that the European Union developed a satellite navigation system called Galileo, which can provide an accuracy of up to 20 cm (0.7ft) on smartphones, while GPS only reaches around 3 meters (10ft) by apeowl

In another thread I read that that intentional accuracy drop was removed 20 years ago but there still is a second frequency in the military can use for higher accuracy than consumer grade

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Volcan_R t1_j5rmigc wrote

Looks like you're right. I guess the 10-15 foot distortions I was getting 10 years ago when I was working with it were atmospheric distortions from the single frequency.

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bdesign7 t1_j5u60bl wrote

Yep. When I was in the Army in the late 90’s/early 00’s we would hold our military gps and a consumer gps (probably a garmin, I would guess) and you could see instantly how much more accurate the military one was.

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