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GPS, Running Watches, Phones, Accuracy and other stuff pt 5

So, I got myself a Garmin Forerunner 3 - a basic running watch from Garmin, good enough for what I need I also spent a bit of time re-plotting the route using the high accuracy OS Mastermap.  MasterMap in my neck of the woods is captured at 1:2,500 - which means it is 99% confident to be within 2.4 meters of the real world - see https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/tools-support/mastermap-topography-support - without going out with survey gear and stuff, it is as good as you can get in most of the UK.  (Larger urban areas are captured at 1:1,250 but those be big scary places, like Exmouth) Using the new route I re-analysed the Gear Fit data and 4 runs with the Garmin, and here are the results - you can sort by the various measures (getting this working on Blogger took WAY longer than it should have) device error area samples device distance (Dd) OS distance (OSd) ...

GPS, Running Watches, Phones, Accuracy and other stuff pt 4

Further Analysis with Gear Fit 2 OK, so one one wasn't really representative, so I did two more, here's the results Run 1 - Sample points 457, error area 56576 Run 2 - Sample points 447, error area 30765 Run 3 - Sample points 474, error area 28162 So three very different results. Next steps....welll I've gone and bought a Garmin so I guess the next steps will be to do this exercise again with that. Part 5