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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'>I played with the internal GPS in my Nexus 7 after downloading free street software and GPS test software. First I was tricked by the inertial system. I was amazed: It knows which way I’m facing. I thought it had better than sub-meter. I was wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'>Are iPad and iPhone WAAS? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'>The software on the nexus in hard-coded to snap to the road lines. It’s pretty ridiculous in park or a large parking lot. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'>Nexus is not WAAS – I have heard this is an Android quirk. Its precision [by free software] is on the order of 25 feet. I’m sure it’s not better than that. I compared it to my Fujitsu Win 7 tablet running Delorme Streetmap with a WAAS GPS, I saw no discernible difference until I pulled into the funeral home parking lot [I played with the GPS to try and keep my mind off an otherwise bad day: a lady younger than me died of cancer]. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'>Anyway, the snap-to-the-line feature Jim spoke of is real and pretty tight. Road data is so good on Garmin, Tom Tom [even Magellan] that details of an urban clover leaf show up and snap-to-the-line gives an inflated image of precision. It’s wild when details are missing and the green arrow is running across grass [or rarely cheats to a road you know is wrong]. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'>Google maps on nexus are less strict about snapping to the line. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#244061'>William B. Porter <b><a href="mailto:william.porter@famu.edu">william.porter@famu.edu</a> 850 412 5972</b></span><span style='color:#244061'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#244061'>Application Coordinator for GIS / Infrastructure</span><span style='color:#244061'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#244061'>Florida A&M University</span><span style='color:#244061'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#244061'>EIT / GIS</span><span style='color:#244061'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#244061'>Perry-Paige, West Wing Ground floor,</span><span style='color:#244061'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#244061'>Office 1 -C</span><span style='color:#244061'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#244061'>1740 S. M L King BLVD</span><span style='color:#244061'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#244061'>TLH FL 32307</span><span style='color:#244061'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#244061'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Robeson<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 08, 2013 9:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Sykes, John'; 'Amy Knight'; shrug-l@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: shrug-l: Google earth accuracy estimate?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Gamins and Tom Tom for vehicles have a good bit of modeling in their display when using on a street map product; snap to the line. But they are typically 3ish meters in a good place and 5-10, maybe even more, in a really bad place. Bad being in around buildings or a heavy multipath environment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>R</span><span style='color:black'>egards,</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"ParkAvenue BT";color:#1F497D'>Jim Robeson<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Freestyle Script";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>James M. 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But in my experience they are relatively minor, because Florida is FLAT! In my experience elevation differences cause many if not most of the errors. The major problems I see involve plotting addresses, where things may be off by half a block. If you find the particular building and plot it, it usually is accurate to about 10 meters or better. Part of the error comes from the aerials used and how well they were georeferenced. Since most aerials for the State are now being flown with a digital linear scanner, they are much less prone to these errors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I just checked my own home, where I have a very visible location on my back deck that I have used to check several GPS’s for accuracy. Pulling the Google Earth lat/long quickly (they have a brand-new aerial, shot only a few months ago) and comparing it to the GPS average was within 1 meter. T’ain’t too shabby! Probably 1 ft of that error is my shaky hand on the trackball. Oh, by the way, they weren’t survey-grade GPS’s either; 1 Garmin, 1 DeLorme and my roommate’s TomTom. But I took several readings on different days and averaged them out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#1F497D'>-- John</span></b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please take a few minutes to share your comments on the service you received from the department by clicking on this link <a href="http://survey.dep.state.fl.us/?refemail=John.Sykes@dep.state.fl.us" target="_blank">DEP Customer Survey</a>.</span></em><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us">shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a> [<a href="mailto:shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us">mailto:shrug-l-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Amy Knight<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 07, 2013 10:55 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:shrug-l@lists.dep.state.fl.us">shrug-l@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a><br><b>Subject:</b> shrug-l: Google earth accuracy estimate?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi- A year or so there was SHRUG exchange of ‘bad’ google earth examples. Does anyone know of an accuracy estimate for Florida? We receive point location data from many different sources but more and more data are coming in with Google Earth as the source of the location (lat/long). We need to be able to say what locational uncertainty those data have. How ‘off’ could a point be, plotted on Google Earth vs. Florida aerial ortho imagery? Thanks for any information-<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Amy <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Amy Knight</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>GIS Program Specialist</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Florida Natural Areas Inventory</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Florida State University</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>1018 Thomasville Rd, Suite 200-C</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tallahassee, FL 32303</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ph. 850-224-8207 x214</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.fnai.org">www.fnai.org</a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:green'>Science for Conservation</span></i></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>