Like pnewhook said Galileo is old news. First of all why is everyone so worried about European GPS, GLONASS has been around for years and you don't hear about anyone making a fuss about that. I actually work for a company that right now sells a GPS manufacturer that incorporates both the US GPS and Russian GLONASS. The addition of Galileo will make GPS as we know it entirely more effective. We are talking close to 80 positioning sattelites in the next 5 years. Plus I've known about equipment for the construction industry at least that is already developed that will be able to reference all three systems for the last year. This is old news and also nothing to worry about, actually we should all be excited to see how this new sattelite system is going to change the positioning industry.
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Like pnewhook said Galileo is old news. First of all why is everyone so worried about European GPS, GLONASS has been around for years and you don't hear about anyone making a fuss about that. I actually work for a company that right now sells a GPS manufacturer that incorporates both the US GPS and Russian GLONASS. The addition of Galileo will make GPS as we know it entirely more effective. We are talking close to 80 positioning sattelites in the next 5 years. Plus I've known about equipment for the construction industry at least that is already developed that will be able to reference all three systems for the last year. This is old news and also nothing to worry about, actually we should all be excited to see how this new sattelite system is going to change the positioning industry.