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Re: Wobbly Prime Meridian
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2010 Nov 23, 17:37 -0400

100 m under decent conditions? That's rather pessimistic. Please see:

http://www.gpsworld.com/gps/standard-positioning-service-handheld-gps-receiver-accuracy-784

-- Richard Langley

Quoting Apache Runner :

> Even more troubling is when it fails altogether.   This happened to me once
> in the fog in a kayak in coastal waters.   100 m sounds about right for a
> hand-held device under decent conditions.
>



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