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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:20:34 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        The Unicorn <unicorn@blackhats.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook authors.ent doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/contrib chapter.sgml doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/staff chapter.sgml www/en/news newsflash.sgml
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References:  <90115.966804256@critter> <200008202036.e7KKaNG21382@grimreaper.grondar.za> <90115.966804256@critter>

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At 08:17 AM 8/21/00 +0200, The Unicorn wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> > It's actually the location of the phase center of the GPS antenna
> > mounted on a pole behind my lab, so on average it's about 20 m off
> > in the horizontal plane and about 5 m wrong in the vertical plane,
> > but since we don't have heights in xearth that hardly matters :-)
>
>And in any case (more than) close enough for aiming an ICBM ;-)

And is most likely the reason why the changed to allow a 10X increase in 
accuracy of GPS units available to the public.  IOW, close counts for 
explosions, but cars with navigation systems may wish stay on the road or 
at least the right side of it. <g>


Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net
Systems/Network Administrator
FreeBSD - the power to serve



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