I've done some rain-forest hiking, and I've noticed similar results. If you really want to see some wandering tracks, try hiking along the base of some cliffs, in dense forest.
I have noticed that the errors do seems to be less the faster I'm moving. If I stand in one place for a while, the path can wander over quite an area if there is dense cover. If I walk fairly quickly, then it still has errors, but not as large. I think it must be finding more open patches and correcting itself more often. Stephen 2009/8/10 Mike N. <nice...@att.net>: > I'm using netbook with just your average $30 GPS dongle to collect data. > Today I took a 5 mile out-and back hike under dense forest canopy. The GPX > traces for the same trail out and back are separated by as much as 100 > meters. > > I didn't record PDOP information and such, but are there any solutions to > record decent GPS traces on trails under forest canopy data collection other > than a high end professional GPS datalogger? > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
