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Axelvold:
Does the Crustal motion affects the GPS position?

mackbig:
real time or over time?  I think the GPS position would remain constant, but you might need to get a map update from Garmin in a few thousand years to compensate for the 20m drift.

Andrew



--- Quote from: Axelvold on February 02, 2010, 03:58:53 AM ---Does the Crustal motion affects the GPS position?

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Bushman:
IN california GPS is used to measure earthquakes and plate displacement.

Axelvold:

--- Quote from: mackbig on February 02, 2010, 06:51:30 AM ---real time or over time?  I think the GPS position would remain constant, but you might need to get a map update from Garmin in a few thousand years to compensate for the 20m drift.

Andrew



--- Quote from: Axelvold on February 02, 2010, 03:58:53 AM ---Does the Crustal motion affects the GPS position?

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It is an interesting fact that approximately 200 million years, we will almost all be neighbors, or at least live on the same continent

Cienega32:
The old "What goes around - comes around" theory.

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