[OSM-talk] Quality of Sirf star 3 tracks disappointing...

[Nick Black]

I'd imagine that the Sirf III is "too sensitive" - its picking up all
kinds of singals that have bounced off all kinds of buildings.
Perhaps at the next London user group meeting we could log tracks at
the same time and compare the traces from an old chipset to the new
Sirf III from central London.

Nick

On 7/10/06, Emil Vaughan <emil79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/10/06, Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/10/06, Emil Vaughan <emil79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I've just started recording tracks with a Sirf Star 3 GPS sending data
> > > to my N80 phone, and recording it with GEtrack (python isn't available
> > > yet for my phone) - and I'm a bit annoyed to find my tracks are all
> > > over the place, and only rarely seem to coincide with the roads
> > > already in osmeditor...  So do I need to get a proper GPS unit......?
> > > I haven't made my tracks public as they are so bad!
> > >
> > > Also, most of the roads near me are not named - can I name them ?
> > > (from memory, not from a map of course). Do I need a photo of the
> > > street sign before I can name them?
> >
> > Emil: Are you mapping in an urban area or in the countryside?
> >
> > Nick
> >
>
> No central London.....
>
> Emil
>