Wondering GPS!

[Yasack]

Hi All,

I am sure someone here can help, if it has not already been addressed.

While out walking today I got to a point where I needed a 10 minute stop for coffee etc. I laid my Active 10 down and admired the views while eating my lunch. When I had finished and packed away everything I checked my location and where I needed to head and found that the red trail that is laid out behind me had wondered about while I was stationary.

Is there any way to stop this happening or is it a Software issue!!

Hope to hear back from someone soon,

Regards,


Richard (YASACK) Forster[/b]

[PloddinPedro]

[FrequentFlyer]

[philpugh]

The basic GPS position will be drifting a little - they all do it. However TT may be pulling a few tricks to prevent displaying this..

The first is that all car sat navs tend to "lock to centre line" - that is - because you are travelling in a car (or other road vehicle) it naturally assumes you are on a road - so if your position is calculated as being a short distance off (a few meters) - it "corrects" it to be on the road. If the slight movement is up and down the road you are on then it may be possible to see this - check the GPS speedo reading when stationary for several minutes - it may show a low speed from time-to-time.


I don't know if TT sat navs do this but some GPS receivers have a mode (static wandering) that causes them to display the same position for very slow movements. This is fine for car navigation but is a PITA for walking, as the position updates are infrequent due to slow speeds attained.
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Phil

[LostMike]

I had not noticed any lunchtime drift until today when I switched off the machine and then on again (it appeared to need a reboot as it was not repainting the map) and it then reported that I had wandered about 100m during the exercise.

I assume this was some aberration while it was re-locking to the satellites.

Did you switch off or might the machine have lost signal (put under a rucksack?) during lunch?
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LostMike
Satmap A10. Platform 21
Software version 1.5.9193
Satsync 1.525

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