Phone enhancements

[David Schlesinger]

My recollection was a little out of date. Units without WAAS correction seem
to get something like 10 to 25 meters resolution... Units with correction do
better...

See http://www.doylesdartden.com/gis/gpstest.htm

On 1/29/07 6:57 AM, "Graham Auld" <openmoko at graham.auld.me.uk> wrote:

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> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Bryce Leo
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> Subject: Re: Phone enhancements
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>>  You'd have to be doing some serious zigzagging: resolution of GPS at
>> street level is about 50 meters...
> 
> Exactly the point!! if you're zig zaggin that much you definately need to
> have the cops get called!
> 
> But on a serious note, how could it be 50 meters? That's about 165 feet...
> in certain cases about 3 different roads... Most of the Garmin products are
> at 1m/3feet resolution. I'm sure that most consumer devices are within about
> 2m/6ft. Do you have numbers that I don't in this case?
> 
> Bryce Leo
> 
> I'd have to agree on this one, I use GPS systems in several areas and
> generally see resolutions between 2 and 10 meters on average with 5-6 sats
> in use.
> 
> Granted to detect zig zags you'd need to be quite careful with how you used
> the data, telling the difference between weaving and dodging pot holes...
> 
> Maybe I should light the touch paper and suggest this be a use for the
> famous accelerometer that's been mentioned so much ;-)
> 
> Graham
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