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Re: How accurate is pinned lat & long on Google Earth?
From: David Pike
Date: 2017 Feb 27, 09:54 -0800
From: David Pike
Date: 2017 Feb 27, 09:54 -0800
Geoffrey and Bruce
Thank you for that really useful information. Practical results are always good to hear and stow away for future use.
Frank you said:
But are you sure you really need that? How would you use that point?
You’re correct of course. I realised that myself having slept on the matter. What I really need is the relative positions of three points about 50 metres apart quite accurately and I can do that using a 100m tape measure and a compass or hand-held GNSS receiver to get a base line. The matching of my three points to lat & long is desirable for what I want to do, but extreme accuracy isn’t necessary so long as all three points are wrong by the same amount. DaveP
