Monthly Archives: December 2010

GPS accuracy testing at 0 degrees East

…When East Isn’t East. Where better to test the accuracy and resoution of your GPS devices than the agreed ‘Prime Meridian of the World’ at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, where east meets west at zero degrees of longitude? I … Continue reading

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Improving GPS accuracy with EGNOS

One of the things we learned from our field trials this August was that the on-board GPS in our Android phones (HTC Desire, Nexus One) doesn’t resolve position as accurately as we’d like, often only achieving a 10m ‘accuracy’ (as … Continue reading

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