From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 31 23:50:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [194.19.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEA2237B400 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:50:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 47575 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Apr 2002 07:50:17 +0000 (GMT) To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPS time. From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:39:10 -0800" References: <3CA80E9E.B091200F@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 09:50:16 +0200 Message-ID: <47573.1017647416@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hopefully European GPS project (Galileo) will provide an alternative. > > It still has a long way to go though. > > Galileo strikes me as unnecessary, unless the receivers will be > cheaper to get the same resolution. The 1 meter resolution seems > a little poor, compared to differential. Galileo may be unnecessary *if* you trust the US. As a European, my view of US and European politics is that they're sufficiently different (both in methods and goals) that I don't trust the US that much. Thus I think Galileo is a good thing, even if it'll be very expensive. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message