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Re:IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS by sjwright on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @12:34PM (#3130871)
Yeah, but if there are more useful satellites in the sky, there's a greater chance of the visible satellites having a wider separation. Even in the 'urban canyon', you still frequently have partial sky visibility in some non-vertical directions. And there will be occasions when a GLONASS satellite will be better placed than a GPS satellite.

To use a reductio ad absurdum argument, imagine a satellite positioning network with a thousand nodes. Wouldn't it have a greater chance of providing a useful fix in this environment: http://g.co/maps/sa8zk ?

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