My father phoned me last night to discuss it. I've not listened to the show, however my understanding is that, they satellites are gradually reducing in orbit and as such will eventually drop on our heads, as opposed to letting us know where we are.
Apparently the US Military have not spent any money putting new ones up, hence the problem. Some how though, I really do doubt that it would all just stop working, the US I would have thought would need to have their own system, and I doubt they would like loosing all the money that the GPS system brings in. 2009/5/21 Russ Phillips <r...@phillipsuk.org> > Yesterday, on Radio 2's drive time show, someone mentioned that sat > navs would stop working next year. My wife heard it as she was driving > home, but there were no details. > > We can't work out what they were talking about. The Listen Again page is > here: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kg9fr > > I can't listen to it because I'm at work, but I can't find any mention > of it on the BBC news pages. Does anyone know what they were talking > about? > > Russ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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