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Re:China's version of GPS now has more satellites than US or... by xbmcuser on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:12AM (#20745256)
I don't get something you have satellites of glonass, gps and beidou what's stopping anyone from getting better accuracy using all 3 at the same time.
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Re:China's version of GPS now has more satellites than US or... by 867-5309 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @07:55AM (#20745850)
because they are independent systems; they cannot communicate triangulation data between themselves
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Re:China's version of GPS now has more satellites than US or... by xbmcuser on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:19AM (#20746644)
Isn't the triangulation being done on the phone/device GPS chip ? The same chip is doing it for all 3 services. The chip gets the data of the satellite positions and then shows its location in relation to them that how I thought gps/other systems worked.
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