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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2005-07-08 04:09:31 +0000 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2005-07-08 04:09:31 +0000 |
commit | 6c208a7bffe33ad4471f147765460161c4cab932 (patch) | |
tree | 6fa621e97ed1d6c60822ed306471e62d58519db9 /gps.h | |
parent | 5cc410a8ba5a00510fc3fdd052b808ae64657278 (diff) | |
download | gpsd-6c208a7bffe33ad4471f147765460161c4cab932.tar.gz |
Report uniform 95% confidence intervals.
Diffstat (limited to 'gps.h')
-rw-r--r-- | gps.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ extern "C" { * GPRMC/GPGGA/GPGLL during a single cycle; thus, they may have different * timestamps and some data in this structure can be up to 1 cycle (usually * 1 second) older than the fix time. + * + * Error estimates are at 95% confidence. */ struct gps_fix_t { double time; /* Time of update, seconds since Unix epoch */ @@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ struct gps_data_t { double pdop, hdop, vdop, tdop, gdop; /* Dilution of precision */ /* redundant with the estimate elments in the fix structure */ - double epe; /* estimated spherical position error, 2 sigma (meters) */ + double epe; /* spherical position error, 95% confidence (meters) */ /* satellite status -- valid when satellites > 0 */ int satellites; /* # of satellites in view */ |