[AT] Re Driving to Unionville Missouri

[henry miller]

Sorry for confusing the issue. The point is the worst error from your GPS will never be off by more than the house next door. If you are off by more than that it is the fault of something else. 

BTW, the militaries concern with GPS is related to ICBM - if the soviets are off by a few feet when they launch a nuclear bomb at DC, the bomb will land far off in the country, hopefully only killing a few cows. The Soviets are no more, and civilians have figured out ways around the error they introduced: they don't degrade the GPS signal anymore.
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jnyost at yahoo.com wrote:

Did not read the first thread on this so not sure what he is trying to do with Google Earth. One thing Google Earth is free, correct? Precision Farming/GPS is not, well at least in my area it isn't. Love that Precision stuff through.
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Maybe the military GPS is better, but the worst civilian ones are still plenty good. When google earth shows you are at the house next door that might be GPS - everything farther away than that is bugs in google earth. Google's maps contain a lot of errors, and they don't seem to be doing much to fix them. Most of the time they will get you close, but that is the most you can ask. You will often have to drive around a bit to find where you you want to be.

I work with precision GPS, we can get you within 1 inch of where you want to be. But that doesn't stop us from trying to get you to 1 inch of the wrong house.
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Mark Greer <markagreer at embarqmail.com> wrote:

Funny you mention that, I had a conversation with some recently out vets yesterday at a factory in Orrville. Their take is that civilian GPS and what they used in Iraq and Afghanistan are worlds apart in accuracy. What we have access to and what the military uses are two very different animals.
Mark

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You mean Google Earth is wrong again? I have entered known street addresses into it, and had the program identify places that were several miles away from the real target. It makes you wonder about our military guiding drones into remote areas from the comfort of their air-conditioned offices that are half a world removed.

Larry
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