[OSM-newbies] Wiki documentation on GPS devices - please help answer some questions

[Robert Helvie]

A small selections of studies on accuracy ...

http://academics.skidmore.edu/blogs/onlocation/2012/03/smartphone_accuracy/

http://www.academia.edu/353833/Geographic_Fieldwork_Preliminary_study_comparing_GPS_capabilities_between_smartphones_and_dedicated_GPS

http://www.paulzandbergen.com/PUBLICATIONS_files/Zandbergen_TGIS_2009.pdf

jama rek,




> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis
> <gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's a shame you feel that way. I can't be happier with my Garmin. That
> > being said it uses standard AA batteries and gives me the option of
> setting
> > the type of battery, rechargeable or throwaway. A dedicated device should
> > potentially be more accurate. but that is an assumption not a fact.
>
> Well, you can have a hybrid arrangement: my phone has GPS built in,
> but will also talk to separate GPS receiver over Bluetooth (I think
> this is quite a common arrangement for phones with both GPS and
> Bluetooth hardware).
>
> __John
>
>
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