what about paper mapping?

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6 March 2014 14:31, Thejesh GN <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks a lot Shree. I will get in touch with them.
> >
> >
> > Just to update the group. I did a small POC recently to see if its
> achievable.  I think its quite possible even-though a little difficult.
>
> [...]
>
> Yes, ODK is great.
>
> > Some issues that I faced
> > 1. GPS logging is not very accurate. It has 4 to 8 meters of error, how
> do we fix it?
>
> 4-8m is optimistic, and assumes quite some time spent to get a
> proper GPS fix. Given the quality of the GPS in most phones, a
> RMS error of 20m is more realistic. The only way to improve that
> is to take a large number of readings, and average over these, but
> this cannot be done with ODK out of the box. As the error in the
> mean decreases as the square root of the number of observations,
> one needs 25 readings to get from 20m to 4m, and 400 to get to
> 1m. However, if the aim is to identify the general locality, the default
> GPS accuracy should be fine.
>
> Regards,
> Gora
>
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