[time-nuts] GPS SPD field

[Randy Warner]

Said,

Yeah, I meant to mention that. You really just need to parse on the
commas and then figure out what was in between them. I have seen 2, 3,
4, and 5 place precision on varying receivers. I have to laugh at the
marketing weenie who thought 5 place precision would help him sell
standard, non-differential positioning receivers. Actually, advertising
5 place precision probably DID sell units to the technically challenged.

Randy

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of SAIDJACK at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:34 PM
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPS SPD field

Hi Randy,
 
I have seen at least one GPS (Panasonic) that sends 5 digitis after the
decimal point for position in NMEA, and at least one commercial
navigation program for PDA's that cannot handle 5 digits!

They hard-coded the parsing routine to be "stupid" enough to  always
expect 4 digits, and it crashes when they receive 5 digits of
precision...
 
bye,
Said
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