I am sorry, but I have to disagree. Just because Garmin and others make use of the Global Positioning System does not make them *providers* of the same. That would be like saying D-Link, Netgear and Huawei are Internet providers because they make hardware to interface with the same. But that makes them vendors, not providers, and so Garmin and others are too vendors by induction.
Still, we seem to have come to a halt, an impasse, in our discussion. Let's just drop this subject and agree to disagree. Mike Barnard <[email protected]> wrote: Depending upon ones *definition* of provider, you may side with Cavin's insistent definition or opt to throw it out. As far as providers for the GPS, Global Positioning Satellite, is concerned (assuming we are looking at the GPS provider in the same context as one would look at an ISP) there is only ONE provider, that being the US govt. As far as satellite positioning systems are concerned there exists, available to the public, the GPS provided by the USA and the GLONASS provided by the Russians. The Europeans are working on Galileo. I believe the Chinese and the Indians are working on their own, which when done, we shall have 5 satellite positioning systems available to the public. In the sense of GPS provider, as Cavin has been stressing it, I would think these are companies that make use of the satellite navigation system to provide a service to end users, hence the mentioning of GAMIN and others. That said, it looks like both Cavin and the rest of the contributors to this email have been correct, depending on the context one looks at 'GPS provider' My few cents -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------
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