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From: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: map generation
Message-ID: <234@geowhiz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 07:31:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  2 07:31:32 1985
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Reply-To: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh)
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In article <900002@uiucme> keith@uiucme.uiucme writes:
>3.  Why Loran?  Omega is the wave of the future and SatNav is the future
>waving back.
>(6 years U.S. Coast Guard)

  Omega is pretty outdated and DOD is not committing to keeping it around
forever.  The Global Positioning System (GPS) is now partially up and is
usable over large sections of the world.  GPS is truly the wave of the
future.
-- 

Bruce Karsh
U. Wisc. Dept. Geology and Geophysics
1215 W Dayton, Madison, WI 53706
(608) 262-1697
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