Is National Differential GPS Lost?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @07:10AM from the so-where-are-we-again? dept.

Nealix writes, "This article at GPSWorld reports that National Differential GPS (NDGPS) is endangered in the 2007 budget. This has ramifications for a variety of government programs such as the Intelligent Transportation System and Positive Train Control by the Department of Transportation. Blind people and robots also benefit from highly accurate GPS navigational capability provided by NDGPS, which appears to work better in the urban canyons. If NDGPS loses, the winner would appear to be the FAA-backed Wide Area Augmentation Service (WAAS). Of course, what would be really cool is to see more GPS sites around the country make DGPS data (RTCM) available over the Internet."

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Ok You libertarians out there, LETS GO! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-05 07:37 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Tell us how the free market will make this available. We want to read your RANTS!!!
Go, go, GO!
learn how to reply to the right comment, moron. by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-05 07:44 · Score: -1, Flamebait

nt
Beneficial for Robots? by DongleFondle · 2006-09-05 07:53 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Wont someone please think of the robots!