Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoFCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’.www.fcc.govexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down16cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up169arrow-down1external-linkFCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’.www.fcc.govTea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square50fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
minus-squareSaik0@lemmy.saik0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-23 days ago You are not getting a 3 dimensional location. That’s why GPS coordinates only exist on 2 planes. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Coordinates on a sphere is a 3 dimensional location. The earth isn’t flat. Edit: Please education yourself before you’re so confident in your own bullshit answer. https://gisgeography.com/trilateration-triangulation-gps/ and https://www.gps.gov/multimedia/tutorials/trilateration/ Satellites broadcast a sphere, not a circle. And that sphere doesn’t land on the earth as a perfect circle for relatively obvious reason… since the ground isn’t perfect flat, nor is the earth perfectly spheroid.
minus-squareUlrich@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days ago The earth isn’t flat. So which coordinate accounts for elevation? Latitude or Longitude?
Coordinates on a sphere is a 3 dimensional location. The earth isn’t flat.
Edit: Please education yourself before you’re so confident in your own bullshit answer. https://gisgeography.com/trilateration-triangulation-gps/ and https://www.gps.gov/multimedia/tutorials/trilateration/
Satellites broadcast a sphere, not a circle. And that sphere doesn’t land on the earth as a perfect circle for relatively obvious reason… since the ground isn’t perfect flat, nor is the earth perfectly spheroid.
So which coordinate accounts for elevation? Latitude or Longitude?