Skip to content

Reduce GPX coordinate precision to 6 decimal places (remove nanometer-level noise) #706

@jamescr

Description

@jamescr

Following the discussion in #563, there is a strong consensus that OSMTracker currently saves GPS coordinates with excessive precision, which implies molecular/nanometer accuracy that consumer GPS hardware simply cannot deliver.

According to the OSM Wiki on Precision of Coordinates: 6 decimal places is more than enough for the best consumer GPS.

The proposed change is to round latitude and longitude to 6 decimal places when saving track points and update GPX export.


PD: XKCD: What your GPS doesn't tell you

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned
    No fields configured for Feature.

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions