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Date:      Mon, 01 Apr 2002 09:50:16 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GPS time.
Message-ID:  <47573.1017647416@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:39:10 -0800"
References:  <3CA80E9E.B091200F@mindspring.com>

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> > 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

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