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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2005-07-08 04:09:31 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2005-07-08 04:09:31 +0000
commit6c208a7bffe33ad4471f147765460161c4cab932 (patch)
tree6fa621e97ed1d6c60822ed306471e62d58519db9 /gps.h
parent5cc410a8ba5a00510fc3fdd052b808ae64657278 (diff)
downloadgpsd-6c208a7bffe33ad4471f147765460161c4cab932.tar.gz
Report uniform 95% confidence intervals.
Diffstat (limited to 'gps.h')
-rw-r--r--gps.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gps.h b/gps.h
index 1478ca76..896ff98f 100644
--- a/gps.h
+++ b/gps.h
@@ -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 */