[OSM-talk] My Experiments with Mapping
Kenneth Gonsalves
lawgon at au-kbc.org
Sat Dec 12 00:10:42 GMT 2009
On Friday 11 Dec 2009 6:57:27 pm Shalabh wrote:
> cal faces of huge Himalayan rock, 25 metres apart. And my GPS says the
> error is +-53 metres. Where do you suppose it showed me? Somewhere drilled
> into the mountain rock? Perhaps. The error went upto 96 metres and then the
> altimeter lost 100 metres while I was climbing.
>
you can buy a sparcsystems logger which in ideal conditions is accurate to a
metre - it has a magnetic antenna with a 3 metre cord which you can stick on
the roof of your car and a bell push for marking waypoints which you can fix to
your steering wheel. It costs around 7500
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Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Project Officer
NRC-FOSS
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
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