[Xastir-dev] Position accuracy

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

I've seen Jack's response, but I've got to comment further.  The more 
conversions we do, without telling the world what datum we're using the 
more times someone's gonna misrepresent what the data mean.  We need to 
see a new version of the compressed format that tells you what datum is 
in use.  Perhaps this is something for Scott's OpenTrac project rather 
than APRS...

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> 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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