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To: F15Eagle

Hey, just read up on the technical data for GPS, which has nothing to do with crop circles. I’ve already supplied you with the reference points on it and they show that error. You must not look at the data that I give... :-)

In addition, I’ve verified the errors myself, in actual practice in trying to nail down positions accurately. We’re not talking about driving down the street, which doesn’t make any difference at all, if you have an error of that size.

If you’ve used mapping programs, with accurate mapping data and have tried to overlay GPS positioning on it — and you are driving — one can easily find (on that data from GPS) that you’re shown to be driving on the wrong side of the road (when you’re *not* actually driving on the wrong side of the road)... LOL...

And yes, customers are quite satisfied, because they’re not trying to get something closer than the margin of error that exists in GPS. Customers are happy to have trailheads mapped (on their GPS) within the distance of the error that exists on GPS. Drivers are happy to find “buildings” that are “there” within the error that exists on GPS.

Everyone is happy, even with the 30-foot errors that apply. No one said that they were unhappy...

I’m happing when I see on my computer and GPS system that I’ve just passed the turn-off for some road that is not marked but I know I’m supposed to go down it. When I’m traveling at 60-80 MPH down the highway and my GPS shows that I’ve just passed that road, I don’t care about the 30-foot error. I’m *more than happy* that I noticed the turnoff *at all* on my map program combined with my GPS... :-)


188 posted on 07/11/2009 12:45:01 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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