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Re: Clinton Acts to Make GPS Systems More Accurate
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Mon, 8 May 2000 16:53:09 GMT
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Curt Mills, WE7U <hacker@tc.fluke.NOSPAMcom>
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On Tue, 2 May 2000, Mulampaka, Kalyan (GXS, ASI) wrote:
> I guess now I could use GPS for the navigation of my robot.
> GPS signals are now unscrambled.
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000501/tc/clinton_gps_1.html
Depends... Is 6 meter to 10 meter accuracy good enough? Perhaps
you're making an outside 'bot?
Note: I've heard everything from 6 meters to 17 meters, and I'm
not sure of the exact figure yet. I was too busy last week to study
the GPS change.
Curt Mills, WE7U hacker.NO_*SPAM@tc.fluke.com
Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin
"Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
"Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
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| (...) If you use differential GPS (which includes a nearby stationary receiver at a known coordinate) you can get much better resolution -- down to sub-meter accuracy. Still might not be enough to avoid the furniture, though. Forget global. We need (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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