How satellite positioning works: GPS and other constellations explained, why accuracy varies, geofencing, asset tracking, and location privacy basics.
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What Global Positioning Does
An explainer on positioning technology: how satellite navigation finds your location, why accuracy varies, and how location powers maps, logistics, and everyday apps.
Satellites, signals, and timing — the mechanics of a position fix in plain language.
GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, and BeiDou — the systems circling overhead and how receivers use them together.
Why your dot drifts in a city canyon and how correction services tighten it to centimeters.
How fleets, parcels, and wildlife are followed across the map in real time.
Drawing invisible lines on the world and doing something useful when they're crossed.
What your position data reveals, who collects it, and the controls you actually have.
How Global Positioning Works
A receiver listens for timing signals from satellites passing overhead.
Tiny differences in signal arrival times become distances, and distances become a point on Earth.
Maps, delivery tracking, geofences, and navigation all start from that one computed point.
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Yes — the position fix comes from satellite signals your receiver hears directly. The internet is only needed for the map tiles drawn underneath it.
Tall buildings block and bounce satellite signals, so the receiver hears echoes. Phones blend in Wi-Fi and cell data to compensate, with mixed results.
A phone typically lands within a few meters. Surveyors using correction services and dual-frequency receivers work down to centimeters.
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