Whether or not it’s exploring uncharted caves in France or contributing to an open supply street-mapping mission, Eric Sibert depends on the SparkFun RTK Categorical for the positional accuracy he wants.
The Search For Cheap and Moveable Positional Accuracy
As each a caver (an individual who explores caves, also known as spelunking) for greater than 30 years and an bold contributor to an open-source map mission (OpenStreetMap (OSM)) since 2009, Eric Sibert has a long-standing ardour for positional accuracy. In all that point, Sibert has been on a quest to search out an correct and transportable device that permits him to simply swap between these duties – a quest that has confirmed to be not so easy.
To fulfill his necessities, he would wish a device that could possibly be taken into distant caves, but additionally present excessive accuracy for correcting street-level knowledge. This dilemma ended up being a drawn-out and fruitless endeavor for fairly a while. “I’ve been awaiting years for potential GPS chips offering uncooked knowledge at a low worth. I made some makes an attempt within the mid-2000s with the SiRF III chip.”
Click on right here to learn how Sibert lastly discovered the product he was on the lookout for.
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