[AT] Re Driving to Unionville Missouri

[Mike Sloane]

It is not an accident that the military version of GPS is MUCH more
accurate than the civilian version. The civilian version has errors
actually built into the system for a very simple reason: it would not be
a good thing if an enemy were to use GPS to aim weapons at American
armed units using readily available inexpensive GPS devices. Military
equivalents of the commercial units have circuitry that corrects the
error, down to inches. It is the same with the satellite views from
Google Earth - the military versions can actually read facial details
and license plate numbers on vehicles and provide positioning down to
the second.

Mike

On 8/2/2012 7:26 AM, 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. Sent from my Verizon Wireless
> BlackBerry
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> Driving to Unionville Missouri
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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.
>