[talk-ph] GLONASS

[Erwin Olario]

And in addition to what Eugene said, GLONASS is required for all phones
sold within the Russian federation.

Some China-made phones now support China's SatNav system,  Beidou, in
addition to GPS and GLONASS

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 14:53 Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> GPS is the American system while GLONASS is the Russian system. Also,
> Galileo is the EU system.
>
> GLONASS and Galileo were developed so that Russia and the EU do not have
> to depend on the American system. GPS, after all, is a technology developed
> originally for military purposes.
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Jim Morgan <jim at datalude.com> wrote:
>
>> Just saw a phone advertised with GPS and A-GLONASS, so I looked it up.
>>
>> I know the current GPS system is old and up for retirement at some point.
>> Maybe this is the replacement?
>>
>> https://beebom.com/what-is-glonass-and-how-it-is-different-from-gps/
>>
>> Oh, apparently iPhones already use as a GPS+GLONASS combination. Never
>> knew ...
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> talk-ph mailing list
>> talk-ph at openstreetmap.org
>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk-ph mailing list
> talk-ph at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
>
-- 

/Erwin Olario

e: erwin at ngnuity.xyz | v/m: https://t.me/GOwin | s: https://mstdn.io/@GOwin
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/attachments/20170721/91c587e7/attachment.html>