[Xastir-dev] Position accuracy

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Jack Twilley wrote:

> The map window's position is given in microdegrees, which gave me hope
> until I went to configure my station's position to find I was limited
> to milliminutes (nice unit, eh) for resolution.  Now, since one minute
> is one-sixtieth of a degree, there are 60000 milliminutes to each
> degree.  That's almost as good as 100000 microdegrees to each degree,
> but it got me thinking.

Switch to compressed positions and you get better accuracy.

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