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If I may ask everyone, how accurate do you want to get with that gizmo? Near
land, is it not best to fix off of land objects...and while cruising - I do
not know? I would like to get a feel for the range of comfort that all of
the experienced cruisers are used to. Accuracy to comfort.....
I always thought that in the blue - 1-2 mile radius was good enough. Did we
not navigate well enough with out having to shoot up all of that space junk?
I see people in boat shows looking at GPS's -buying the things and not being
able to understand the simple LAT / LONG definition....very sad indeed.
V/R
Monte Mechler
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From: Navigation Mailing List
[mailto:NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX]On Behalf Of Tony
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 3:41 PM
To: NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX
Subject: Re: GPS Accuracy Now.
I imagine the Coast Guard will be the authority on this. Look for
something on their DGPS pages. Nothing yet but I expect it to be
improved in accuracy, not obsoleted.
Tony
> Ed Kitchin wrote:
>
> With the reality that the government has now taken off "selective
availability", does this mean
> that the DGPS is now an obsolete piece of equipment? What kind of accuracy
can one expect to be
> the norm now? 1 - 5 meters? Does anyone know?
>
> Ed

   

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