[Xastir] educate the un-informed

[KC7ZRU - Tate]

On Tue, July 10, 2007 11:05 am, Steve Huston wrote:
> 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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Cool, thanks.

The white boxes seen when zoomed in tight are "error" boxes then?

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