This was the issue, thanks Jim Harman!
Russ
Perhaps aprs.fi is reporting in dd.mm (degrees.minutes) format vs decimal
> degrees. That would be consistent with the numbers you are setting.
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Perhaps aprs.fi is reporting in dd.mm (degrees.minutes) format vs decimal
degrees. That would be consistent with the numbers you are setting.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 8:01 PM Azelio Boriani
wrote:
> aprs.fi uses google maps... have you taken a look to your raw packets?
>
Indeed, probably datums.
I dont have the numbers in my head, but here is a
Good tutorial about Geo - Datums.
https://vdatum.noaa.gov/docs/datums.html
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aprs.fi uses google maps... have you taken a look to your raw packets?
On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 12:34 AM, Scott McGrath wrote:
> DATUM perhaps?
>
> Content by Scott
> Typos by Siri
>
> On Apr 20, 2018, at 5:20 PM, Russ Ramirez wrote:
>
> This has
Hi
In general the N/S E/W part of the location should be pretty good between
various
reporting systems. Altitude … maybe not so much. These days, whatever GPS
reports
as “location” generally is considered to be correct. Anybody using a different
set of
numbers is expected to translate over
DATUM perhaps?
Content by Scott
Typos by Siri
On Apr 20, 2018, at 5:20 PM, Russ Ramirez wrote:
This has probably been mentioned before, but there is a significant
discrepancy between APRS.FI locations for DMR hotspots for example, and
what my Trimble receiver and Google
This has probably been mentioned before, but there is a significant
discrepancy between APRS.FI locations for DMR hotspots for example, and
what my Trimble receiver and Google Maps says when I use my address to
lookup the coordinates.
On APRS.FI my location has to be 45.15 N, -93.39 W for the