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Re:IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS by jws on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @08:37AM (#3129841)
Computer driving is more about vision systems than GPS. Maps certainly aren't accurate into the centimeter range in any event.

Sailors find that their charts are some times off by kilometers. I've personally seen a large, erroneous discontinuity in the western coast of St. Lucia while using a GPS chart plotter for navigation. Chart data is copied forward from older charts, many of which were made in the 1800s, those guys were good with a sextant, chronometer, and a pen, but when near land you need your eyeballs.

Re:IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS by ChuckMcM on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @03:16PM (#3131612)
If your maps were wrong you could start a war :-) [1]

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/11/google-nearly-s...

Re:IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS by FrojoS on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @10:46AM (#3130356)
Wow. Shouldn't it be strate forward to correct such large errors by using public available satellite images?