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> It's a bit of shame that the pricing seems to be rather steep for frivolous use The pricing norms for RTK correction networks were set 20 years ago, when ope
by michaelt 3y ago
> It's a bit of shame that the pricing seems to be rather steep for frivolous use
The pricing norms for RTK correction networks were set 20 years ago, when operating your own base station meant buying a second $20,000 dual frequency receiver, and taking an extra guy any time you go out to do a survey, whose job is just to guard the base station.
This made a $2000 a year network correction service seem like great value for money!
Some networks offer more affordable options these days - such as weekly and hourly licenses for drone pilots.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoThis should be another crowdsourced sensor fabric network, like air quality sensors, AIS, ADS-B, distributed SDR, etc.
- barnabee 3y agohttps://www.onocoy.com/ https://www.onocoy.com/ seems to be doing just that. I have no affiliation, and no strong opinion on their specific approach, but I do find it interesting and have thought about running a node, especially since enjoying fiddling around with LoRa / Meshtastic.
- gytisgreitai 3y agohttp://rtk2go.com/ http://rtk2go.com/
- BenjiWiebe 3y agoWe've got a ublox ZED-F9P feeding into that. Station name JasonWiebeDairy. We set it up for RTK for AgOpenGPS - a FOSS auto-steer/mapping/control for agriculture.
- summm 2y agohttps://docs.centipede.fr/ https://docs.centipede.fr/ Currently only really working in France and Hungary.
- RedlineTriad 3y agoThe swiss solution does come with per hour pricing but it's still 0.50 CHF / minute. Which is still very expensive for hobbyists. I feel like the marginal costs for users is so low that it would be better if it were handled as a common good like GNSS systems themselves.
- gytisgreitai 3y agoThat is insane. My mower runs for ~100 minutes per day. This means 50CHF per day which as I see is around 50 euros. Home made base station cost with unicore gnss is around 220 euros…
- Leherenn 3y agoThe traditional use case was for surveyors to use it. In that regard it's pretty cheap.