From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 3 12:53: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C56237B9B2 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 12:52:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02134; Wed, 3 May 2000 13:52:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01317; Wed, 3 May 2000 13:52:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:52:55 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005031952.NAA01317@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Subject: Re: GPS heads up In-Reply-To: <200005031744.KAA63550@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200005031744.KAA63550@apollo.backplane.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ Moved to -chat ] > Ok, this has nothing to do with FreeBSD, but I just had to post > something since nobody else has. > > By presidential order, on May 1 the error introduced into the GPS > system, called 'SA', was turned off. You've *GOT* to be kidding? Honest and truly? (Runs outside with his GPS). > This means that your GPS receivers are now around 5-10 times more > accurate then they were before May 1st. On my Garmin 12, I could get accuracy to 53' consistently before, now it's consistenly at 14'. If I averaged the errors, I got 43', now it only gets 1' better to 13'. Still, it's measurably better than before. > And I have to say, I am totally amazed! My handheld Garmin now > tells me that it is accurate to 14 feet, rather then 100 ft. It is > so accurate now that I can tell which side of the street I'm on! This is good and bad. Now my routes tell me I'm off since I'm on the other side of the road. *grin* > I am well and truely amazed. It's impressive to see the thing recognize > when I take a few steps in one direction or another using a bunch of > satellites sitting thousands of miles away in the sky. It's even more > impressive to see the government do something right for a change! No kidding. Thanks for the announcement Matt, I wouldn't have noticed this for a while had you not posted this, and then I would have wondered if my GPS was going bonkers. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message