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#187
Originally Posted by dormant View Post
This is really outside the scope of maemo-mapper, but I'd be interested in what people think.

Maemo-mapper, GPS and Google Earth are now so good that we can see errors in some of the data available. In Trinidad, I can consistently see a 15m offset between GPS locations and Google Earth/Maps data. For instance, the attached file shows a track I drove this morning plotted on Google Earth (I see the same offset on the n800 when I use Google Maps). There was very good visibility of satellites, so the error in the location should be less than 5 metres.
Does a downloaded route plot with the same error as your track? If so, then it's possible that the lat/lon-to-screen conversion code is not accurate. If I may ask, in what part of the world was that track recorded, i.e. far north or south, near the equator, etc.?