> ----- > From: KEGan > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:33 PM > > Question. If you take a "consumer" GPS, and walk/drive along a path many > times enough. And you could somehow average up all those readings > ... would the average gives you accurate results ?
Isn't that a major premise of OpenStreetMap, enough people contributing cheap GPS tracks until a consensus emerges? <shrug> > From: Simon Garton > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 8:01 PM > > I have tried that approach with a pair of cheap GPSs and wrote the > software to automatically do the add/subtract. Got absolutely rubbish > results - even with two of the same model of GPS. I guess it is something > to do with them not choosing the same set of satellites to use Darn it. Well, thanks very much for letting me know, you've saved me the cost of buying that second unit to try it. :) -Ben _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
