20/04/2007 14:16:30CSC Proprietary
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Humans have been trying to find out where they are relative tothe earth for over 8,000 years
•The world’s first map is of a city in Turkey in 6500BC•Astrolabe: Longitude: 150BC•Compass: Direction: China –1000AD, Europe –1300AD•Sextant: Latitude: 1730•Chronometer: Longitude: 1750•Quartz Clock: Longitude, Distance, Velocity: 1928•Terrestrial Radio Navigation: LORAN, GEE,: 1930s and 40’s•Global Radio Navigation: OMEGA: 1968-1997•First global positioning system•NAVSTAR: 1978:Global Positioning Satellites•Longitude, Latitude, Altitude•All weather capability•WAAS: 2000: Wide Area Augmentation System•L2C: 2005: Next Generation GPS accurate to two meters
Evolution of Location Tech
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