GPS

Keith Sheppard writes:

Over here in Europe, we are still in "before WAAS". There's been a lot of
testing activity of the European equivalent of late but still no public
service.

It must be awfully hard to test with no satellites yet in orbit.

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Keith Sheppard writes:

Over here in Europe, we are still in "before WAAS". There's been a lot of
testing activity of the European equivalent of late but still no public
service.

It must be awfully hard to test with no satellites yet in orbit.

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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:07:58 GMT, "Keith Sheppard"
wrote:

Before WAAS

Over here in Europe, we are still in "before WAAS". There's been a lot of
testing activity of the European equivalent of late but still no public
service.

That limits GPS accuracy in Europe to about the 15ft mark for the time
being.

I guess I misremembered. I thought there was a WAAS sat for Europe. My
apologies.


Rodney Myrvaagnes NYC


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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:07:58 GMT, "Keith Sheppard"
wrote:

Before WAAS

Over here in Europe, we are still in "before WAAS". There's been a lot of
testing activity of the European equivalent of late but still no public
service.

That limits GPS accuracy in Europe to about the 15ft mark for the time
being.

I guess I misremembered. I thought there was a WAAS sat for Europe. My
apologies.


Rodney Myrvaagnes NYC


We have achieved faith-based science,
faith-based economics, faith-based law
enforcement, and faith-based missile
defense.
What's next? Faith-based air traffic control?

Rodney Myrvaagnes writes:

I guess I misremembered. I thought there was a WAAS sat for Europe. My
apologies.

There is a WAAS-like system called EGNOS being developed. It's not
operational yet. There's a testbed called ETSB that sometimes
broadcasts signals that can be used by some GPS receivers.

Dave

"Arty Facting" writes:

Now a combo GPS & camera? Sheesh - that is a thought!

Get yourself a Nikon D100 or D1x. These camera have a serial port that it
automatically reads from a GPS and embeds the information directly into the
EXIF information. The California coastline project
(http://www.californiacoastline.org/) used it to record the entire California
coastline, keeping track of longitude, latitude, and altitude.

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Michael Meissner wrote:
"Arty Facting" writes:


Now a combo GPS & camera? Sheesh - that is a thought!


Get yourself a Nikon D100 or D1x. These camera have a serial port that it
automatically reads from a GPS and embeds the information directly into the
EXIF information. The California coastline project
(http://www.californiacoastline.org/) used it to record the entire California
coastline, keeping track of longitude, latitude, and altitude.


A serial port still? Sigh.
This GPS owner will NOT buy another one until they abandon this artifact
of a previous century!

Ron Hunter writes:

A serial port still? Sigh.
This GPS owner will NOT buy another one until they abandon this artifact
of a previous century!

Why abandon it? It's adequate to the task and it's the most compatible
interface around.

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Mxsmanic wrote:
Ron Hunter writes:

A serial port still? Sigh.
This GPS owner will NOT buy another one until they abandon this artifact
of a previous century!

Why abandon it? It's adequate to the task and it's the most compatible
interface around.

Compatible with what? If I bought a GPS receiver with a serial port, I
wouldn't be able to plug it into *any* computer I own without some kind of
adapter.

No, I really want a nice GPS unit, but a serial port totally disqualifies
a unit from consideration.

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Jeremy |

Jeremy Nixon writes:

Compatible with what? If I bought a GPS receiver with a serial port, I
wouldn't be able to plug it into *any* computer I own without some kind of
adapter.

Then the fault is in your computer, not the GPS receiver. Serial ports
are probably the most common types of hardware computer-to-computer
interface in the world, (although Ethernet must be pretty common by now,
too).

No, I really want a nice GPS unit, but a serial port totally disqualifies
a unit from consideration.

Does running on old-fashioned AA batteries disqualify it as well? After
all, they were invented more than five years ago, so they can't be of
any use today.

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