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   by seagor 3y ago

   Super cool concept. I checked out GPS and it has a nice variety of results: https://encyclopaediaautomatica.com/article/GPS The idea of collaboratively adding to the content is fascinating. It is like a crowdsourced ex
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   by seagor 3y ago

   That is accurate - the error correction comes from aggregating measurements from multiple mobile devices instead of using a base station. The goal is to provide the service to mobile app developers who use location based services. They alre
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   by seagor 3y ago

   I think the novel part of the team's work is mobile phones can't directly use base stations for error corrections. We don't want to use mobile phones to replace base stations for the traditional surveying use case but instead
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   by seagor 3y ago

   It depends on your use case if current mobile pne GPS is good enough. Rideshare companies lose millions of dollars because drivers end up on the wrong block, wrong side of street, wrong level of an airport and have to circle. Automotive com
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   by seagor 3y ago

   In the academic literature it is called "cooperative positioning" although we use different computational techniques than traditionally tapped by academics. Under the hood we are using techniques from RTK and PPP but in the form o
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   by seagor 3y ago

   There is more detail on the testing results and approach in this Medium post. https://medium.com/@zephr.xyz/gps-the-technology-we-all-use-... . Happy to answer questions about the team's work and thanks for interes