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Global Positioning and Local Knowledge

Thanks to the legacy of a worldwide system of military satellites called the Global Positioning System, computing devices can be modified to figure out where they are quite accurately. Increasingly, the locality of information is being included with the information itself. What are some of the advancements in using these two things together? What advantages does it hold?

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