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To: gusopol3
"GPS on Tomtom etc tells you how fast you’re going. 3d vs. 2d makes this impossible in the air?"

On the GPS units I've owned, the "third D" (elevation) seems to be nowhere as high resolution as the other "two Ds"...

55 posted on 06/27/2009 7:47:56 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: TXnMA

Oh I don’t know, one time I was changing a tire and the voice said, “you’re jacked, man.”


62 posted on 06/27/2009 9:02:29 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: TXnMA
On the GPS units I've owned, the "third D" (elevation) seems to be nowhere as high resolution as the other "two Ds"..

That's because, most of the time, GPS is nowhere near as accurate in the vertical. If the display was the same resolution, it's would change all the time, each update, even driving down a nice flat road, or sitting in the parking lot for that matter. This is due to something called "geometrical dilution of precision". It affects all the position components, but it take a really bad/unusual set of satellite geometries to make it bad in the horizontal, but it's not at all rare to have the visible satellites mostly out near the horizon, which means they are nearly in the same plane as your local horizontal plane. Which means the measurements are relatively bad normal to that plane, IOW in the up/down direction.

81 posted on 06/27/2009 9:12:45 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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