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Re: Smartphone navigation
From: Bill B
Date: 2012 Jul 20, 17:38 -0400
From: Bill B
Date: 2012 Jul 20, 17:38 -0400
On 7/20/2012 4:39 PM, Frank Reed wrote: > Finally, as far as Gary's report of less than 5 minutes of arc error in > an LOP from a smartphone app, that's either good luck or it's an app > that is cheating (perhaps even in a way that the programmer did not > realize). That was the reason I asked Gary to do a sanity check. The Droid already knows where it is. If he places his assumed position 30' away from his true position or misaligns it a degree or so off the body and he still gets 5' results, the program is cheating--by design or not. Bill B
