My recollection was a little out of date.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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryce Leo > Sent: 29 January 2007 14:31 > To: community@lists.openmoko.org > Subject: Re: Phone enhancements > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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