trouble when *fixing to UTM

Olly Betts olly@survex.com
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:55:19 +0000


Olly Betts writes:
>In message <3AB9F8B2.7000106@dybal.eti.br>, Leandro Dybal Bertoni writes:
>>This is the *fix:
>>
>>*fix \gps 216842 8633520 600
>>
>>When I took out the last digit of the northing, (863352) it got back to 
>>normal.
>
>The problem here is that cavern uses single precision floating point
>internally, which typically gives about 7 digits of precision.  That means
>that here you are only getting North/South positions to the nearest 10m at
>best, which is probably your problem.

I've just checked and the only place cavern still uses single precision is
where the coordinates are output to the .3d file (it's used double precision
elsewhere for over 2 years now but I'd forgotten).

I'll fix the .3d file output and we'll see if this fixes your problem.

Cheers,
Olly