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How Google Calculates Your Location

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

CHAPTER

The Future of GNSS

GPS is embedded into the modern world in ways that, as soon as you scratch the surface, there's GNSS again. In most cases, from a user point of view, it's giving you the most precise location we can manage. It doesn't show me all the calculations that's taking place. It just says, here is the location is best we can do. Does that Fuse Location Service? Well, that's a this is a precise location. This is a proximity. Can I ask it to calculate those things? Or is it just, okay, this is the best I could do here?"

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