I was watching a letsplay of The Longest Drive and they mentioned GPS: I wonder how long GPS will keep functioning after a civilizational collapse?
Because while yeah, eventually the satellite orbits will decay, but I imagine the lack of updates will kill it faster
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(To be clear, it's a great concept - but the map data is, mmm, "differently fragile" than the satellites themselves. I still have a copy of USGS tiff files for the US that are from before OSM, which clearly label a schoolhouse that is no longer across the street from me... even without anything collapsing.)
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@wildweasel
The satellites only help you calculate coordinates, mapping is local or cloud (so, how many survivalists have offline copies of OSM afterwards :)
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