On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Maarten Deen wrote: > Can someone explain to me why an ATM would need a GPS in order to dispense > cash? Or why Wall Street needs it to trade? These things are stationary. > Ok, maybe stock traders can use it to see where shipments of the companies > the trade in are, but that seems pretty far fetched. Still, ATMs?
My guess is they use the time signal. Perhaps the terrestrial radio time signals aren't secure enough. robert. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
