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Re: LF: Google maps update - Margin Of Error?

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Subject: Re: LF: Google maps update - Margin Of Error?
From: wolf_dl4yhf <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:41:14 +0100
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Don't trust google. There are rumors that their maps are deliberately skewed slightly, which allows them to prove if any map is based on their online map database.

If you can, let your GPS receiver run for a few hours (or, better, days), and make an average to get a *precise* location. You can do that graphically with a GPS track plotter. This way you can eliminate some of the GPS errors, at least since SA ("selective availability") has been turned off years ago.

Cheers,
  Wolf .

Am 16.03.2012 11:55, schrieb Clive Lorton:
On 15 Mar 2012, at 20:36, Stefan Schäfer wrote:

  now the locator has slightly changed. The actual antenna is now in 
JN49IK00WE. Damn, now all the distances must be re-calculated ;-)


Morning LF from a lurker….

I just checked my GPS against a well defined mark on my drive in Oxfordshire 
and it was spot on. But when I visited my friends house in Southern Brittany 
last year there was a 22 (ish) meter error between google and my GPS. Which is 
right. Which should we use.

73 to you all
Clive g8poc










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