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Topics 19
How does GPS know exactly where you are?
Why does your satnav route you through a village that hates through traffic?
Dead reckoning in a tunnel: why the blue dot drifts and then snaps back
Why does the shortest route on the map feel longer than the fastest one?
How does an airplane know where it is when there is nothing on the ground to look at?
When the GPS signal is jammed and the ship has to fall back on the sextant
What a river pilot knows that no chart records
How do ships navigate when GPS is jammed and why does it happen so often now?
Bow thrusters and tugs: how does a 400-metre ship dock without touching anything?
How does a thirty-tonne anchor hold a ship in a gale?
Squat effect: why does a ship in a narrow channel get sucked toward the bank?
Why are road signs in Britain and the United States so different when the rules are much the same?
Wrong turn into a truck ban zone: how good is the routing data behind your app?
What the stars were used for before there were charts
The week the GPS rollover bug made old receivers think it was 1999
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