[OSM-talk] [talk-au] US to spend $8bn upgrading GPS constellation

[John Smith]

On 27 May 2010 09:21,  <nicholas.g.lawrence at tmr.qld.gov.au> wrote:
> Why would a parking meter need a GPS? It doesn't move around.

Same reason banking, the timing source, although surely NTP would be
good enough, as per the article GPS goes out and some hospital looses
it's emergency pager system seems pretty stupid to not have a backup
in place.