Ok they're looking out for themselves, but nice to have them on our side anyway.
http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/news/us-senators-enter-lightsquaredgps-discussion-11525
If surveyors were the primary uses of GPS, we would have to kiss it goodbye. There is no way we'd have enough political pull to stop Lightsquared.
> Ok they're looking out for themselves, but nice to have them on our side anyway.
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>> http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/news/us-senators-enter-lightsquaredgps-discussion-11525br >
Don't you think that's agribusiness and GPS-controlled farming operations whose ox will be slaughtered?
Oh no, if they get involved the new receivers will be made of corn! 😉
> Oh no, if they get involved the new receivers will be made of corn!
Well, unless there's something I'm missing, the senators who wrote the letter are from Nebraska and Kansas. Kansas and Nebraska. Who are their main in-state donors who would be interested in GPS viability?
I think LightSquared is all about trying to get their system put into urbanized areas more than rural ones - where we already have enough issues with the urban canyon effect, et cetera. But that's another matter...
You'd think the folks dealing heavily with logistics and deliveries, UPS and others would have a dog in this fight as well. Not to mention, emergency responders and others. It's not just surveyors by any stretch of the imagination.
> It's not just surveyors by any stretch of the imagination.
No, land surveying is a minuscule portion of civilian GPS use. It's astonishing that a frequency allocation that could reasonably be expected to be problematic for GPS use would have gotten as far as it did.
"Its subsidiary Garmin International, Inc. serves as headquarters for the Garmin Limited companies and is located in Olathe, Kansas
> "Its subsidiary Garmin International, Inc. serves as headquarters for the Garmin Limited companies and is located in Olathe, Kansas
Agreed. Garmin must be lobbying hard. Garmin must be Kansas' high-tech darling. Zero to hero in less than 10 years. They are something like twice the size of Trimble now.
I say let Lightsquared go ahead with the program. Build baby build. Create jobs. Some lucky Surveyors might get the jobs to place the towers. Sell stock. Pre-sell a million 8G cell phones. Then once the DoD realizes they've screwed the system the fat cats on Wall Street bail out, the Feds take over and create even more jobs to tear down the Lightsquared equipment. It's the American Way.
Well its a glossy mag
can't say other than its like google for GPS no real input