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What's the difference between a Location and a Position?

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In the context of real time locating systems and global positioning systems, i'd like to know what's the exact difference between them?

I'd like to think that a position is always a number, and a location is a symbolical place. The GPS is designed to give something a position, which is always a coordinate. A locating system however is able to generate a symbolical place or a x,y,z coordinate to indicate where an object resides.

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  1. By what you've said, I would guess the Location is the actual place... A specific McDonalds in New York for instance.  The position would therefore be the 'position' of a particular 'location' with respect to the coordinate system of the GPS system.  The GPS system needs a coordinate system to tell where everything is at (like latitude and longitude, or x and y coordinates of a point on a graph).  As long as you know what the coordinate system is, you can figure out the Location on the earth of a particular GPS Position.

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