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GPS signals can be blocked or bounced off objects, especially in cities or forests, causing errors in location measurements. When signals bounce off buildings before reaching the receiver, it causes multipath errors where the location appears further than it actually is. Additionally, the US government previously introduced selective availability to reduce accuracy for civilian users and could potentially block access to GPS altogether in the future.

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Disadvantages

GPS signals can be blocked or bounced off objects, especially in cities or forests, causing errors in location measurements. When signals bounce off buildings before reaching the receiver, it causes multipath errors where the location appears further than it actually is. Additionally, the US government previously introduced selective availability to reduce accuracy for civilian users and could potentially block access to GPS altogether in the future.

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Disadvantages of GPS

In reality, GPS coverage is relatively poor. This is especially the case in cities, in dense forests and other places where there are many large obstructions in the receivers horizon. This is because the microwave frequency that GPS broadcasts on is very sensitive. Signals may bounce, or be blocked entirely; both of these effects obviously have negative effects to a successful measurement.

When a signal bounces (off a building, for example) and is read by a receiver, a miscalculation occurs known as a multipath error. Since the signal didnt travel in a straight line from the satellite, the receiver will expect to be further away from it than it actually is. From a civil point of view, another disadvantage of GPS is Selective Availability (SA), used by the military to reduce accuracy over a certain region. When enabled, SA increases the C/A codes inaccuracy by adding random noise. As GPS becomes integrated in more and more systems, perhaps the most important disadvantage is reliability. Because GPS is run by the U.S. Department of Defense and is the only open service satellite navigation system, there is no guarantee that the service will always be available. The United States government could, for example, decide to block civil GPS altogether

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