[mattew]

The interesting thing about GPS back then was that the location data you got back were randomly slightly incorrect every time you got a reading. I’m pretty sure this was so it wasn’t useful for military purposes.

I think it was called differential post correction but if you had a base station with a known location you could snap your incorrect points to the difference generated at that correction level and get the true location after the fact.

Source: GIS major in late 90s when this stuff was a lot more magical

[toomuchtodo]

https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/

Selective Availability?

[mattew]

That’s right. It was selective availability and you used differential post correction to clean the data up and get accurate locations for the data you were capturing. Thanks for the correction!