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Old 09-14-2016, 03:38 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by Phantom View Post
just remember, unless you have a military grade GPS (which no one can) there is a deliberate +/- tolerance to the accuracy of ALL commercially available GPS's.

Use to be 10 meters (33 ft), but I think it has since been tightened up

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The +/- degradation for non military GPS receivers, known as "Selective Availability", was eliminated in 2000.
http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/
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