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Old September 23rd 04, 06:25 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
Gavin Hamilton Gavin Hamilton is offline
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Default Technology for its own sake?


"James Christie" wrote in message
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With difficulty, because GPS has an accuracy of +/- 100m, unless of course
you are using Differential GPS, but that is mainly a maritime system.
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It's been somewhat better than that for a while, since the "random error"
was removed. IME the error is probably nearer 2 metres. Though the powers
that be can reintroduce the random factor, or turn it off entirely, should
they feel the need.

G