Wikipedia: History of Global Positioning System

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The systems is used by countless civilians as well, who can use the GPS's Standard Positioning Service worldwide free of charge.
In the past, the civilian signal was degraded, and a more accurate Precise Positioning Service was available only to the United States military and other, mostly government users. However, on May 2 2000, Bill Clinton announced that this "Selective Availability" would be turned off, and so now all users enjoy the same level of access, allowing a precision of position determination of less than 20 meters.

The systems is used by countless civilians as well, who can use the GPS's Standard Positioning Service worldwide free of charge. In the past, the civilian signal was degraded, and a more accurate Precise Positioning Service was available only to the United States military and other, mostly government users. However, on May 2, 2000, Bill Clinton announced that this "Selective Availability" would be turned off, and so now all users enjoy the same level of access, allowing a precision of position determination of less than 20 meters.

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See also GeoCaching and DegreeConfluenceProject.

See also Geocaching and the Degree Confluence Project.

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