[OSM-talk] Defective GPS trace

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Fri Jan 1 19:38:08 GMT 2010


On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Craig Wallace wrote:
> You can check the satellite screen on the Garmin. It should show an 
> estimated position accuracy.
> Also, you can look at which satellites its receiving. If its locked on 
> to a reasonable number of satellites in a decent spread across the sky, 
> you can be fairly confident in its accuracy.
> 
The Oregon 550 lacks a pictorial representation of the almanac, and only has 
five bars telling you whether it thinks it has good PDOP or not.
Or it might, but as I've had mine 8 days , the same as Steve has, and it is in 
a menu I haven't found yet ;)




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