Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 16:25:10 -0400 From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPS heads up Message-ID: <7684.000503@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200005031952.NAA01317@nomad.yogotech.com> References: <200005031952.NAA01317@nomad.yogotech.com>
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Here is the 'Presidential Statement' regarding the issue: http://www.navcen.uscg.mil/gps/policynotes/SA.htm I don't know why they even continued to use SA after they released Differential GPS, which is good to 5 meters and less. It sort of got around the signal degredation. But, for the folks who didn't want to sink $500 into a DGPS unit, this news is great. It is sort of surprising since it is 6 years earlier than planned. Neill Wednesday, May 03, 2000, 3:52:55 PM, you wrote: NW> [ Moved to -chat ] >> Ok, this has nothing to do with FreeBSD, but I just had to post >> something since nobody else has. >> >> By presidential order, on May 1 the error introduced into the GPS >> system, called 'SA', was turned off. NW> You've *GOT* to be kidding? Honest and truly? (Runs outside with his NW> GPS). >> This means that your GPS receivers are now around 5-10 times more >> accurate then they were before May 1st. NW> On my Garmin 12, I could get accuracy to 53' consistently before, now NW> it's consistenly at 14'. If I averaged the errors, I got 43', now it NW> only gets 1' better to 13'. NW> Still, it's measurably better than before. >> And I have to say, I am totally amazed! My handheld Garmin now >> tells me that it is accurate to 14 feet, rather then 100 ft. It is >> so accurate now that I can tell which side of the street I'm on! NW> This is good and bad. Now my routes tell me I'm off since I'm on the NW> other side of the road. *grin* >> I am well and truely amazed. It's impressive to see the thing recognize >> when I take a few steps in one direction or another using a bunch of >> satellites sitting thousands of miles away in the sky. It's even more >> impressive to see the government do something right for a change! NW> No kidding. Thanks for the announcement Matt, I wouldn't have noticed NW> this for a while had you not posted this, and then I would have wondered NW> if my GPS was going bonkers. :) NW> Nate NW> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org NW> with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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