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WAAS is fascinating. Interesting that older Garmin watches used to have WAAS but because it's a "north america only" ability it seems to have been discontinued
by ck2 4y ago
WAAS is fascinating. Interesting that older Garmin watches used to have WAAS but because it's a "north america only" ability it seems to have been discontinued after the first Fenix/Epix
https://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/waas.html https://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/waas.html
- t0mas88 4y agoWAAS is North America only, because that's the specific name of the local system. The generic term is SBAS, which works in Europe, Japan, India, Russia, China and soon also Australia and parts of Africa. It's used by modern airplanes to do GPS (GNSS) approaches, so expect it to be rolled out everywhere over time. Some systems/countries are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_augmentation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_augmentation