[Xastir] educate the un-informed

Steve Huston huston at srhuston.net
Tue Jul 10 13:05:08 EDT 2007


On 07/10/2007 12:54 PM, KC7ZRU - Tate wrote:
> There's a balloon icon, with a black, dotted square and bisecting lines
> from corner to corner of the square near Salt Lake City. Box covers a
> fairly large area.
> What does that dotted line box indicate?
> Maybe some kind of 'visibility' foot print?

Position ambiguity; if you look at the object, some of the least
significant digits of the position will be missing, so it could be
anywhere within that box based on what digits it did transmit.

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