From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 3 13:34: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370AF37BE24 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 13:34:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA64684; Wed, 3 May 2000 13:34:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:34:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200005032034.NAA64684@apollo.backplane.com> To: Nate Williams Cc: Subject: Re: GPS heads up References: <200005031744.KAA63550@apollo.backplane.com> <200005031952.NAA01317@nomad.yogotech.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org :> 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. More then that... Before the tracks on my Garmin for any given road were all over the map (up to half a mile off). Now they overlap almost perfectly. Before the 53 feet the Garmin reported best case was not actually correct... the tracks were a hellofalot more then 53 feet off from each other. Now, the 14 feet the Garmin reports is real. I am in the process of getting information from NextBus (tracking busses in SF) -- Bryce tells me that the tracks have tightened up considerably verses before. In fact, I did a bunch of work for NextBus a year or two ago and a big portion of it was writing heuristics to get around the SA errors to figure out what the bus was actually doing. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message