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When involved in a war, the US Military do not want their GPS capability to be jammed by the enemy. So they invented a code system that allowed only those with the "code" to access the really accurate GPS locations (anti-jamming). Without using this code, you can only get really coarse locations - perhaps a resolution on the order of 200 to 300 feet.

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