![]() A worker removes letters from the Twitter sign that is posted on the exterior of Twitter headquarters on July 24, 2023, in San Francisco, California. "Consumers of the app can do a lot of different things on the platform, whether it's listen to a podcast, shop, watch videos," said Nii Ahene, chief strategy officer of marketing firm Tinuiti. For now there's no American equivalent to such an app, but industry experts imagine an app that encompasses basically anything a person wants to do online. everyone lived up in Wick and there were a few hundred thousand people living in Cornwall to Essex, then you would reference the grid differently to move the error to where there were fewer people.Musk has been vocal about his goal of turning Twitter into a so-called super-app, something akin to China's WeChat. then this error is less important than down in South were population density is significant. However, due to the massively sparse population and lack of towns etc. The result is, if I remember, BNGs for the far North of Scotland are in error in both easting and northing. ![]() the UK grid is designed for a long, thin country (probably good for Chile too) however, the precision reduces the further North you get from the reference point (out near the Scilly Isles). For a country that is essentially square in shape, the maths and definition of the grid system would be different. The BNG (British grid reference) is designed to be accurate for a country shaped like the UK (long and thin) and is not really defined for outside the UK though you can extend it by inference. See Dilution of precision (navigation) - Wikipedia (It’s a wikipedia article, do your own verification on the article to be sure wiki is correct here.) Outside the UK or when there is no signal, the height will come from the GPS data and due to how GPS works, height is much more dependent on your device software and the distribution of the satellites you can see above your horizon. It depends how the app works but… It’s from the OS (Ordnance Survey, the UK government company that does official mapping) so if I had written it then I would do it this way: if you are in the UK I would take your GPS lat&long and use the OS own very complex model to lookup where you are on their data and return the accurate height if I had a mobile signal. I can’t find that APP anymore on Play Store. I had it installed in one phone that got unfortunately broken, so it was retired and replaced. Some time ago I found an APP able to give a 10 digits QTH Locator (extremely accurate positioning). ![]() It’s name is Easy QTH Locator by US1PM Boris. I had another free APP previously installed and it gives me 6 digits QTH locator, Lat $ Long coordinates, Altitude in meters and feet, plus date and time. based on the barometric pressure, hence the different readings in different moments of the day or in different days.įinally, the compass doesn’t move at all in my phone and I don’t know why. I guess it’s estimating the height a.s.l. It measured 505m on the first time, then 406m, then 465m, now it’s reading 442m… It’s OK to have a rough idea but definitely not too accurate. Regarding the height, I’ve noticed big differences with my phone always in the same place on top of my shack desk. I installed this APP and I can only confirm that ouside of the UK it doesn’t give the locator grid, just the Lat&Long. ![]() OS Locate is a very simple app, which will give you an accurate grid reference, or lat & Long if you’re out of the uk plus hight and also a compass. ![]()
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