"There’s More To Global Positioning Than Just GPS" by @hackaday - US GPS🛰️ started it but isn't the only public global navigation system now. Initially planned for military use, GPS was first to open to public use (after KAL Flight 007✈️ was shot down in 1983) and then others followed. Sophisticated multi-network receivers now improve #Positioning #Navigation #Timing #PNT resolution by combining data from all satellites in view. https://hackaday.com/2026/05/07/theres-more-to-global-positioning-than-just-gps/ #GNSS #GPS #Galileo #Glonass #Beidou #space
There’s More To Global Positioning Than Just GPS

The Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed by the United States military in the 1970s, but it wasn’t long before civilians all over the planet started using it. By the early 2000s the …

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There’s More To Global Positioning Than Just GPS

The Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed by the United States military in the 1970s, but it wasn’t long before civilians all over the planet started using it. By the early 2000s the …

Hackaday

Hat jemand folgendes Verhalten in einem Zug der Baureihe 440 beobachtet?

Zwei verschiedene Empfänger (Garmin eTrex 32x, Samsung Galaxy A52 4G) empfangen kein #GPS-Signal. Beim Garmin auch nach Reboot nicht.

Draußen auf dem Bahnsteig (beim Garmin inzwischen die Batterien entfernt) klappt alles.

Die Datenerfassung für #OpenStreetMap während der Bahnreise musste ich abbrechen, weil mein Garmin mit #GLONASS allein zu wenig Satelliten für einen stabilen, guten Fix empfing. 😔

A different view of "the skies over central Kentucky", courtesy of my #GNSS receiver - one can see the USA's #GPS, Russia's #GLONASS, the European Union's #Galileo, and China's #BeiDou...

I was impressed by the rented #FordKuga, until, just 9 hours in, the satellite navigation system stopped receiving position information from any satellites. (Its satellite status screen shows outline bars for all of the satellites, instead of the normal solid ones. There's no clue in the doco, which typically for Ford does not match the real vehicle, what that means.)

A quick search of the WWW turns up a Kuga owners club forum, where threads about the Kuga sat nav breaking, including but not limited to aerial problems that require authorized mechanic intervention, date back as far as 2013.

Also interesting is that this 2025 model Kuga uses both the U.S.A. #GPS and the Russian #GLONASS; but there seems to be no mechanism for picking just one, nor one for adding #Galileo, which one would think to be an idea for the U.K. market.

I have one idea, a seemingly unrelated sounds setting that I turned on right before parking and coming back to the failure, to try.

#Ford #GNSS

Ortungsdienste GPS, Glonass, Galileo und Beidou: So findet man dich am besten

Wenn ihr GPS am Smartphone aktiviert, sind immer öfter auch Glonass, Galileo oder Beidou mit eingeschaltet. Was verbirgt sich hinter diesen Ortungsdiensten und welche Vorteile habt ihr dadurch?

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