[OSM-talk] Mapchester

[Nick Black]

On 6/7/06, Jeff Flanagan <flanagan_jeff at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>  Hi there.
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> I'm currently involved in a project called Mapchester which is part of the
> futuresonic festival. We want to trial a project during the event which
> involves mapping Manchester city centre and all of the festival's venues via
> GPS data and open street map. I'm currently updating the original
> co-ordinates that were taken during the Mapchester mapping weekend in May
> using a more advanced GPS devise, the garmin GPSmap 60CSx, which should
> hopefully remove the problems of receiving data in built up urban areas.
> Hopefully I should have clearer readings which will be transferred into OSM.
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The new chipsets improved the detection of signals, but the main source of
error in urban areas is still multipath, which so far, there is no good way
to mitigate for.  It would be interesting to see the comparitive accuracy of
a 60csx with an older model from the Manchester data.

Nick


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