Does anyone have any conversions for accuracy of GPS for HDOP readings from 1 to 20?
Out of interest Why?
End of the day for general joe public HDOP and VDOP conversions mean nothing.
Not only that,and never had the interest to get my head around DOPs, but it is my understanding these numbers are not so much as meters of error, but sort of a complicated semi logarithmic measure of the possibility of what the error could be, and usually , often 2 to 3 times the actual error.
Anyway as the subject will most proberly be of interest to many, this is what I have found messing around over the last few yrs....
What is important is how accurate in meters are you to that rock?
To give some idea just how accurate some devices are...
Smart phone...I can locate another phone within 10m radius in a big store like red shed, or 1 car par space, what side of the road it is travelling.
Or find a burgler who has stolen my old smart phone, and has gone to ground in trees, next to a high fence and over grown garden...2m radius
A older garmin car nuvi....in a multi story car park..nothing... in city CBD street 10m elseware, what side of the road the car is on down to 3m
older Lowrance elite 5 feeding my way thru the rocks in scullies reef, 2 to 3 m.. most properly less, 1/2 of that.
My 10+yrs old huminbird 3 to 10m.
Much depends on buildings etc around you... but have found cloud cover trees have little on no effect on the more modern units above.
The software that calculates the information and able to read both the USA and Russian satellites makes a huge difference.
I have noticed this on smart phone updates, the app software updates on the phones and a couple firmware updates on the huminbird and lowrance.