Archive for January, 2008

Comment on ABC News: How accurate is your GPS?

January 15, 2008

Recently, ABC put out a news snippet about the “child killing” inaccuracies of GPS vehicle navigation units. Glossing over the semantically misleading title, the report did a decent job of quickly summarizing the obvious—navigational software is prone to errors. It is not that the receivers are inaccurate, but rather the GIS programming behind [...]