John Francis wrote: >On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 05:58:03PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: >> From: John Francis >> >> >On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:54:41PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: >> >> >> >>I'm wondering just how robust an in camera [GPS] unit would actually be? >> > >> >At a guess, I'd say it would be comparable to those found in smartphones. >> >> So how effective would that be in terms of like I ever lose some >> weight and actually manage to join the annual Saturday morning Mark >> Roberts Mountain-Goat-a-Thon at GFM one year? >> >> (Don't laugh. It could happen.) > >I find the position information in my Droid 3 (or my wife's Galaxy SIII) >to be far superior to the Garmin Nuvi we had four or five years ago. I >don't know how much of that is from the GPS, and how much comes from >software monitoring feedback from cellphone towers and known wireless >networks (both of which are in fairly short supply at GFM).
There are some places on/around GFM (particularly on the northern side) where even my latest GPS loses enough satellites to give no positioning data at all (I think GPS requires 4 or 3 satellites, minimum). There's a very winding section of the Profile Trail where my GPS track just shows an arrow-straight line between where it dropped signal and where it recovered it. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
