[aprssig] Android HUD Development

[Stephen H. Smith]

On 6/8/2011 3:37 PM, Arnie Shore wrote:
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> I'm aware of the TIGER shapefiles; wd that be  yr recommended source?
>

The TIGER files are terrible for real-time GPS applications.   They are 
intended for use by the US Census Bureau to account for every street in the US 
for census-taking purposes, not for precision navigation.

In some rural areas, some roads and side roads are off by as much as a quarter 
to a half mile or more, due either to roads being essentially "hand entered" in 
their approximate location, or due to inconsistent datums.    I.e locations 
referenced to NAD 27 or other older datums weren't corrected to the WGS84 datum 
used by GPS before being merged into the database.