Yo Greg!

On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 08:11:13 -0500
Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I prefer to say the restuls are the results.  They are what they
> > are. The hard foundation on which theories are built.  
> 
> My point is that you are saying CEP as if the mean or some such is the
> true answer.  A tight cluster of positions that is 3m from the true
> position is going to have a good CEP by your analysis, but it's still
> 3m off.

Not my terms.  All terms in the scatterplot are from standard RCC 261-00.
All computations are also per that standard.

But yes, similar to Hans's recent posts, getting a solid true position
is non-trivial.  As I mentioned to him, a trip to a local USGS banchmark,
known to about 1cm, is on my TODO list.

> >> My take from watching that is that there are significant, perhaps
> >> dominant, periods when the device is in RTK FIX.  
> >
> > I almost never see RTKFIX.  I think it is dropping into simple DGPS
> > (SBAS) mode for a short period.  
> 
> huh.   In my book, RTK without FIX is deficient.

Not ideal, but it is what it is.  Nothing I can do about it.

> 
> >> And, periods when FIX is lost, and it's RTK FLOAT (or maybe maybe
> >> even just autonomous/DGPS).  I find that there is a slow wander to
> >> FLOAT.  
> >
> > I hace not seen fix lost.  I'll see if I can write a program to
> > extartc $ of time in each assist mode.  
> 
> That would  be most enlightening.

That was in my next message.

> >> It would be interesting to process the data by looking at only
> >> points in FIX, and to plot the non-FIX points separately.  
> >
> > So yeah, when I'm guiding my car with the GPS, I'll just freeze when
> > assist mode changes?  
> 
> I don't understand why you said that.

To be blunt, tossing out data points is just wrong.

> The first question is to
> understand what's going on, and then there's a later question about
> how useful it is.

Without access to the u-blox code, I doubt we will ever know.  Since I'm
not a real "end user", they will have to speak for themselves on their
use cases.

> If it turns out that plots segregated by mode show
> that different modes have different error statistics, that's really
> useful to know.

I'm sure we already know that.  We have a lot of experience with F9P, and
never have seen anything remotely close to this good before.

RGDS
GARY
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