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This. The combination gives higher accuracy, faster fix, independence from a single political entity, and overall higher reliability by redundancy.



...and higher power usage.

which is why being practical, you would use only one and fallback to the others on failure-to-fix.


This only applies to battery-powered GPS devices. Navigation systems on boats or aeroplanes can afford the higher power consumption and hence use multiple systems simultaneously. Additionally, even battery-powered systems can use multiple systems for a short period at first to get a faster lock, then fall-back to one to lower power consumption.




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