New Zealand Recreational GPS Society

I came across some news recently that may breathe some life into GLONASS - the Russian GPS that many thought may be near death due to lack of interest investment :)

Under the space co-operation agreements signed during President Vladimir Putin's India visit, both countries will jointly develop new generation GLONASS-K satellite for the GLONASS global positioning system, which will function parallelly with the American GPS. Under the Indo-Russian agreements some of the current Russian GLONASS-M satellites would be launched from the Indian soil with the help of Indian launch vehicles.

All I can say is that the more systems and satellites the merrier, especially if handhelds are able to utilise multiple systems.