Hi,

Probably not what you are after, but you could also use an external 
bluetooth GPS device, some of these devices provide 10hz output.

Regards

On Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:18:33 AM UTC+10, bushido wrote:
>
> Hi all, 
>
> I'm writing an application for android for which I need good position 
> accuracy, I use a Galaxy Nexus as test device. 
>
> My test application subscribes to location updates and draws a car 
> symbol in a map, the map is centered to the location of the car & 
> rotates according to the bearing of the location (exactly like google 
> maps on android does). I noticed that when up to speed, the positions 
> don't match with reality, they lag behind considerably. 
> When I cross a street at 90km/h for example, it will take a few 
> seconds before the car on the map is also crossing that street. It 
> isn't an error in the map data, because when I'm standing still, the 
> car gets drawn on the correct location. Google maps for android shows 
> exactly the same behavior. 
>
> The position of the car in Google Navigate on the other hand matches 
> reality rather closely. I've noticed that the position updates are a 
> lot smoother as well. (10Hz rather than the 1Hz updates which you get 
> from GPS) 
>
> My question is: how do they do it? What I can think of is: 
> - using the phone's sensors (gyro & accelero) together with a kalman 
> filter or similar. But I can't see how you could make that work for 
> every phone, since not all phones have these sensors. 
> - interpolating, but in that case I would expect overshooting when 
> there is a sudden stop or a sharp corner 
>
> Thanks in advance. 
> Bushido 
>

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