GPS in my country
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Hi, I found this gps unit[^] is a good one. But I would like to know whether this unit could use in my country (Cambodia) or not. Thank in advance!!!
It’s true that GPS can be illegal in some countries. For example, it’s illegal in Russian Federation to know one’s coordinated with accuracy of 100m or better without a special clearance. This law is a Soviet legacy, and it was designed for anti-intelligence. As a consequence of this law, GPS receivers, which have accuracy of about 10m are illegal. The other consequence is that coordinated on the civilian maps are slightly shifted. Nobody was aware of this law until there was a scandal when an American engineer, who was consulting for a Russian cellular provider, was arrested for the illegal use of GPS. What about Cambodia – I don’t know, but you could look in the following sources: - GPS manufacturers: Garmin, Trimble etc. - Travel information for US citizens, who might be bringing GPS receivers in their pockets to Cambodia. Such information can be found on US Department of State http://travel.state.gov/[^] - Cambodian customs office. You can ask if it’s illegal to bring/import GPS receivers into Cambodia. Good luck! Please keep us posted about your adventures!
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It’s true that GPS can be illegal in some countries. For example, it’s illegal in Russian Federation to know one’s coordinated with accuracy of 100m or better without a special clearance. This law is a Soviet legacy, and it was designed for anti-intelligence. As a consequence of this law, GPS receivers, which have accuracy of about 10m are illegal. The other consequence is that coordinated on the civilian maps are slightly shifted. Nobody was aware of this law until there was a scandal when an American engineer, who was consulting for a Russian cellular provider, was arrested for the illegal use of GPS. What about Cambodia – I don’t know, but you could look in the following sources: - GPS manufacturers: Garmin, Trimble etc. - Travel information for US citizens, who might be bringing GPS receivers in their pockets to Cambodia. Such information can be found on US Department of State http://travel.state.gov/[^] - Cambodian customs office. You can ask if it’s illegal to bring/import GPS receivers into Cambodia. Good luck! Please keep us posted about your adventures!
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Hi, I found this gps unit[^] is a good one. But I would like to know whether this unit could use in my country (Cambodia) or not. Thank in advance!!!
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It’s true that GPS can be illegal in some countries. For example, it’s illegal in Russian Federation to know one’s coordinated with accuracy of 100m or better without a special clearance. This law is a Soviet legacy, and it was designed for anti-intelligence. As a consequence of this law, GPS receivers, which have accuracy of about 10m are illegal. The other consequence is that coordinated on the civilian maps are slightly shifted. Nobody was aware of this law until there was a scandal when an American engineer, who was consulting for a Russian cellular provider, was arrested for the illegal use of GPS. What about Cambodia – I don’t know, but you could look in the following sources: - GPS manufacturers: Garmin, Trimble etc. - Travel information for US citizens, who might be bringing GPS receivers in their pockets to Cambodia. Such information can be found on US Department of State http://travel.state.gov/[^] - Cambodian customs office. You can ask if it’s illegal to bring/import GPS receivers into Cambodia. Good luck! Please keep us posted about your adventures!
Thank you very much for your reply and I'm sorry that my question seem unclear to you. The main purpose that I would like to know is whether this GPS device could be view my country map and detail information about exact road, location, restuarant...? As I know that US, Canada, German, Australia is the well known country around the work but my country is a developing country and not well known like the above country. So I think the information in my country about geographical might be useless and could not view in this GPS. The above information also importance for me too and thank you very much for your detail information. Best Regard,
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Thank you very much for your reply and I'm sorry that my question seem unclear to you. The main purpose that I would like to know is whether this GPS device could be view my country map and detail information about exact road, location, restuarant...? As I know that US, Canada, German, Australia is the well known country around the work but my country is a developing country and not well known like the above country. So I think the information in my country about geographical might be useless and could not view in this GPS. The above information also importance for me too and thank you very much for your detail information. Best Regard,
If you have detailed information about your country, that's more a question related to the navigation software rather than the device. The device itself only receives positioning data, and all the maps are provided by the software. In the "Technical Details" section of the link you provided it's stated that the device is "Preloaded with City Navigator NT V.8 with maps of U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico". So that's about it. You can also check if you can update the software. I'm personally using IGO, but the information about my country isn't as detailed as for other European ones. You should probably contact the software vendor about this.
Cheers, Mircea Many people spend their life going to sleep when they’re not sleepy and waking up while they still are.
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It’s true that GPS can be illegal in some countries. For example, it’s illegal in Russian Federation to know one’s coordinated with accuracy of 100m or better without a special clearance. This law is a Soviet legacy, and it was designed for anti-intelligence. As a consequence of this law, GPS receivers, which have accuracy of about 10m are illegal. The other consequence is that coordinated on the civilian maps are slightly shifted. Nobody was aware of this law until there was a scandal when an American engineer, who was consulting for a Russian cellular provider, was arrested for the illegal use of GPS. What about Cambodia – I don’t know, but you could look in the following sources: - GPS manufacturers: Garmin, Trimble etc. - Travel information for US citizens, who might be bringing GPS receivers in their pockets to Cambodia. Such information can be found on US Department of State http://travel.state.gov/[^] - Cambodian customs office. You can ask if it’s illegal to bring/import GPS receivers into Cambodia. Good luck! Please keep us posted about your adventures!
Nick Alexeev wrote:
It’s true that GPS can be illegal in some countries. For example, it’s illegal in Russian Federation to know one’s coordinated with accuracy of 100m or better without a special clearance. This law is a Soviet legacy, and it was designed for anti-intelligence. As a consequence of this law, GPS receivers, which have accuracy of about 10m are illegal. The other consequence is that coordinated on the civilian maps are slightly shifted. Nobody was aware of this law until there was a scandal when an American engineer, who was consulting for a Russian cellular provider, was arrested for the illegal use of GPS.
This paranoia predates the Soviets. Deliberate map errors were inserted back in the Czarist era. Allegedly noone in western intelligence was aware of large multi-mile errors in the maps until satellite recon didn't match with the printed data.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Nick Alexeev wrote:
It’s true that GPS can be illegal in some countries. For example, it’s illegal in Russian Federation to know one’s coordinated with accuracy of 100m or better without a special clearance. This law is a Soviet legacy, and it was designed for anti-intelligence. As a consequence of this law, GPS receivers, which have accuracy of about 10m are illegal. The other consequence is that coordinated on the civilian maps are slightly shifted. Nobody was aware of this law until there was a scandal when an American engineer, who was consulting for a Russian cellular provider, was arrested for the illegal use of GPS.
This paranoia predates the Soviets. Deliberate map errors were inserted back in the Czarist era. Allegedly noone in western intelligence was aware of large multi-mile errors in the maps until satellite recon didn't match with the printed data.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
The intentional map distortions may have predated the Soviets, but the Soviets took it to new levels. Russia is a mess, they intentionally avoided an address system that makes sense, and requires that one has local area-specific knowledge in order to intepret and find an address.few