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What does this mean?

RobitTV · 2011-08-02 22:50:12

I was looking at a Sat nav and it says in 175yd in the altitude section? What does yd mean? it just yard's? And what does HDOP mean?

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02-08-2011 11:50pm

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RobitTV

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I was looking at a Sat nav and it says in 175yd in the altitude section?

What does yd mean? it just yard's?

And what does HDOP mean?

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#2 02-08-2011 11:53pm
robinph

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Yep, that will be yards. You should be able to change of to metric in the settings somewhere.

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#3 03-08-2011 12:04am
Alun

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RobitTV wrote: »

And what does HDOP mean?

HDOP means Horizontal Dilution of Precision .. it's a measure of accuracy of the given position.

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