Satellite navigation in India is about to get a whole lot better
Apr29
on April 29, 2016
at 12:15 pm
GPS-based apps like Google Maps are great at helping us get around, but it sometimes gets things wrong when you’re navigating through places in India: unidentified one-ways and lanes that lead to dead ends are common. That’s about to change, because India now has its own satellite-based navigation system, known as NAVIC, short for Navigation with Indian Constellation. Having a dedicated system to cover the country should help bring much more accurate and detailed information for navigation services. The Indian Space Research Organization announced yesterday that the seventh and final satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, the IRNSS…
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