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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2009-09-18 19:03:41 +0000 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2009-09-18 19:03:41 +0000 |
commit | 71c9f719f558ad1163d7ec8539febf785fd81375 (patch) | |
tree | 3d9d96cd06a4fe3fca5bd8df09b4813a6070e95d /gpsd.xml | |
parent | 9de0cdc56020027502ebbf47c9b7b906ff59ff35 (diff) | |
download | gpsd-71c9f719f558ad1163d7ec8539febf785fd81375.tar.gz |
Added the Future page to the website portion of the repo.
Fixed some errors in the capability database.
Diffstat (limited to 'gpsd.xml')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -1045,15 +1045,14 @@ yet, only the "class" field will reliably be present.</para> <para>Many devices compute dilution of precision factors but do nit include them in their reports. Many that do report DOPs report only -<structfieldname>hdop</structfieldname>, two-dimensial circular -error. <application>gpsd</application> always passes through whatever -the device actually reports, then attempts to fill in other DOPs by -calculating the appropriate determinants in a covariance matrix based -on the satellite view. DOPs may be missing if some of these -determinants are singular. It can even happen that the device reports -an error estimate in meters when the correspoding DOP is unavailable; -some devices use more sophisticated error modeling than the -covariance calculation.</para> +HDOP, two-dimensial circular error. <application>gpsd</application> +always passes through whatever the device actually reports, then +attempts to fill in other DOPs by calculating the appropriate +determinants in a covariance matrix based on the satellite view. DOPs +may be missing if some of these determinants are singular. It can even +happen that the device reports an error estimate in meters when the +correspoding DOP is unavailable; some devices use more sophisticated +error modeling than the covariance calculation.</para> <para>The satellite list objects have the following elements:</para> |