Re: N900 GPS Recalibration

2010-03-21 Thread Antti Vähä-Sipilä
> ...or is GPS just inherently less accurate for height than it is for > latitude/longitude? Here is an article that could be helpful. It's about an upcoming GPS satellite reorg, but the pictures show how different lat/lon and vertical accuracies are. (Scroll down to Horizontal Accuracy and Ver

Re: N900 GPS Recalibration

2010-03-14 Thread Gary
"GPS was developed by the United States Department of Defence and was intended for military use. Civilian access was granted in 1983 by US President Ronald Regan with a downgraded accuracy of +/- 100 metres. However, consumer grade GPS access has benefited since the year 2000 from the lifti

Re: N900 GPS Recalibration

2010-03-14 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:03:51AM +, Tony Green wrote: > Can the internal GPS on an N900 be recalibrated? "Now please travel to the southermost point of Africa and press button A." No, I don't think so. > For some reason, mine always seems to show me as about 45 metres > higher than I actua