Re:IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS
by ChuckMcM on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @03:16PM
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If your maps were wrong you could start a war :-) [1]
[1] http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/11/google-nearly-s...
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.