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<div>Lars - yes the second & third roads from the bottom are supposed to be one road, so I think at worst it is 100m-ish out.</div>
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<div>The estate is on a perfectly level area, no forests etc. just buildings. From what you've all said I think it may have happened because I've just changed from using a Garmin GPS that had an mounted antenna mounted on my car roof, to a navi-gps that I was keeping on the front dash, so the comments about having limited satellite view & this satellite passing effect sound like what's been happening.
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<div>Nick - looks like I'll have to sort out some blu-tack :-) pity I can't fit the old antenna on the new receiver...</div>
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<div>Anyway I've been round again today & got some clean traces to upload.</div>
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<div>Thanks all!</div>
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<div>Baz.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick Hill</b> <<a href="mailto:nick@nickhill.co.uk">nick@nickhill.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I have noticed this occasionally to a few tens of feet. Yours seem extreme.<br><br>Is the area on a northern slope of a hill? I ask this as the mis-alignment is
<br>mainly N-S. E-W alignment seems OK. Satellites high overhead on an east-west<br>plane could give enough information for your GPS to track your longitude<br>accurately, but not your latitude. Many satellites are on the southern horizon.
<br><br>Other important factors include how your GPS was mounted. If it is on a lanyard<br>around your neck, it will at best ever see half the available satellites.<br>Usually much less. Situation only a little better if on the dashboard of the
<br>car. When you turn a corner, a different set of satellites come into view, which<br>your receiver will need to train on. Takes time, and in that time, your GPS can<br>loose track where you are.<br><br>If driving around, I mount it on the roof of my car with blu-tack and a back-up
<br>lanyard around the aerial. This way, it can nearly always maintain a fix on<br>enough satellites to give reasonable accuracy. As you turn an obstructed corner,<br>it is more likely to 'see' both new and old satellites for long enough to
<br>maintain a fix.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Barry Crabtree wrote:<br>> Hi<br>><br>> I've been out mapping round a local residential area. Everything seemed<br>> ok plenty of satellites in view, but when I look at the trace it seems
<br>> that over the space of a few minutes it has shifted what looks like<br>> about 50/100 metres. I've put a screenshot of the trace at<br>> <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Grangefarm-wierd.jpg">
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Grangefarm-wierd.jpg</a> but<br>> haven't uploaded the gpx file because it doesn't look right!<br>><br>> Any thoughts on what might have happened. I've been collecting traces
<br>> for a month & this is the first time I've seen anything like this. Have<br>> I done something stupid?<br>><br>> Cheers. Baz.<br>><br>><br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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