[Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

[Nathan Mills]

 On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:05:22 -0400, Lars Ahlzen wrote:

> I completely agree with you, though. The trace from my cellphone is
> horrifically bad compared to that of my GPSMap60, so I still use the
> latter a lot for mapping.

 What phones are you guys using? The TI chips Nokia uses seem to usually
 get within about 10 feet or better anywhere where there's a reasonable
 view of the sky. That's not to say it's never off, but the outliers are
 usually plainly obvious when looking at the track in JOSM.

 When I go out and map new subdivisions, there is often dirt work shown
 on the aerial imagery that can be used as a reference, along with the
 pictures from the phone taken at 5 second intervals, so I can be pretty
 certain it's close at worst.

 I could do better with a better GPS, I'm sure, but for your typical
 suburban-style development the phone seems as good as anything that
 doesn't involve post-processing.

 If I were trying to map individual structures, it probably wouldn't
 be good enough. However, for getting the roads on the map, my N900
 works (or more accurately worked, given my recent output) just fine.

 -Nathan