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Strictly speaking, GPS refers to the US military's GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System). The Russian GNSS is called GLONASS, not "GPS".
by coin 13y ago
Strictly speaking, GPS refers to the US military's GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System). The Russian GNSS is called GLONASS, not "GPS".
- acqq 13y agoNeither GPS nor GLONASS are just "military" systems in sense that they are also used commercially. And: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System "GPS is owned and operated by the United States Government as a national resource."