Taxpayers 'should build Galileo'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6660629.stm
Can't help thinking such hi-tech systems overlook the inestimable value of local knowledge...
Van drivers who deliver my supermarket grocery orders have got lost in my village because their sat-nav displays no street record of the cul-de-sac where I live.
Instead of spending four billion euros to launch yet more space junk, wouldn't a map reading training-course for couriers and haulage contractors work out a bit cheaper?
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