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Puzzling GPS reference in the New York Times today
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| Puzzling GPS reference in the New York Times today
huh? In fairness, I’ve seen more egregious butcherings of GPS related tech from bloggers in the mapping/gis domain, but still a 2 minute perusal of the wikipedia article on GPS by Apple could help to avoid further clouding of this already very misunderstood technology. If you can get 2 successive fixes, you can calculate direction and speed. assuming you have access to the underlying street network, you can then calculate turn guidance. software and data!         |
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| Re: Puzzling GPS reference in the New York Times today
The error on the iPhone GPS might be instructive here. Of course the US has some wide roads, so it shouldn't really matter - unless the iPhone is really, really bad... Richard
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