The generic term is not GPS, it’s GNSS.
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snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoAlright but Global Positioning System is also a description of what all of them do, even if it’s the name of a specific constellation it’s not inaccurate to refer to the others as that. Even though it’s not technically correct it’s… actually I could argue that they’re all technically systems used to give positioning information globally.
baru@lemmy.world 1 year ago
anlumo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe that would be an argument if they used lower-case global positioning system rather than specifically GPS.