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I wonder what happens to all the lat/lon locations fetched using GPS and the such on flickr, etc, they're all 10 feet off now..


Or navigation systems using GPS? 10 feet is enough to confuse navigation systems used in automobiles. I wonder how quickly the map makers will update their databases and turn around sell the update?


Civilian GPS isn't that accurate at the best of times and needs to be robust for times when it can't get clear views of the sky. A 10ft shift shouldn't trip it up.

Wikipedia says 50-15 feet of inaccuracy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Error...




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