apeowl OP t1_j5ub954 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 4:55 PM

Reply to comment by Commotion 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

Also, 16 of the 31 GPS satellites that are currently operational have actually been launched after the start of Galileo in October 2011. Also, they get software updates from time to time.