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From: John Navas
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:16

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On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:02:18 +0100, in
<0qydnah-CPAHh4zRnZ2dnUVZ8lmdnZ2d@bt.com>, Bob <bob@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

>On 10/06/2010 16:57, Char Jackson wrote:

>> I've only seen the camera cars twice, once on my street and once again
>> in another residential part of my city. Both times they were moving
>> with the speed of traffic, about 25-30 MPH. If they were stopping
>> every time they saw an open network, they wouldn't get very far.
>>
>I haven't seen them as yet as I was on holiday when they did my town. 
>Given the accuracy of GPS and if they were moving all of the time I 
>can't see that wifi location will be all that accurate. ...

FYI, business grade GPS is quite accurate even while moving, on the
order of a few feet.  Even my new wrist GPS can manage that.

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