Re: [Talk-us] Website showing the best time to survey with GPS.

2019-06-27 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 6:20 PM Eric H. Christensen via Talk-us wrote: > I was told there was a website that forecasted the best times to do survey > work with GNSS based upon diversity of satellites in the sky, solar activity, > etc. Does anyone know what site this is? Nowadays, the

Re: [Talk-us] Website showing the best time to survey with GPS.

2019-06-27 Thread Eric H. Christensen via Talk-us
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, June 27, 2019 7:58 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > The answer the OP was looking for is likely https://www.gnssplanning.com/ Thank you!!! My Google-fu has been failing me lately. Eric -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Talk-us] Website showing the best time to survey with GPS.

2019-06-27 Thread Ian Dees
Also take a look at http://satpredictor2.deere.com/lookup, found by searching Google for "when is the best time for gps", which lead me to this interesting set of StackOverflow answers: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/181/is-gps-more-accurate-on-specific-hours-of-the-day, too. On Wed, Jun

Re: [Talk-us] Website showing the best time to survey with GPS.

2019-06-27 Thread Simon Poole
The answer the OP was looking for is likely https://www.gnssplanning.com/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Website showing the best time to survey with GPS.

2019-06-27 Thread Eric H. Christensen via Talk-us
I use GPSr devices other than what's in my smartphone. The point is that if all the satellites are clustered directly overhead the diversity isn't great enough to give a truly accurate position on the ground. For best surveying with a GPSr, you want satellites to not only be overhead but

Re: [Talk-us] Website showing the best time to survey with GPS.

2019-06-27 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
Note that for a typical GPS, especially GPS in smartphone I would expect that this effects will be not really noticeable in affecting accuracy. Maybe except massive solar storms like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859 I tried to check sources, but quick search found nothing really

[Talk-us] Website showing the best time to survey with GPS.

2019-06-26 Thread Eric H. Christensen via Talk-us
I was told there was a website that forecasted the best times to do survey work with GNSS based upon diversity of satellites in the sky, solar activity, etc. Does anyone know what site this is? Thanks, Eric___ Talk-us mailing list