Paweł Więcek wrote:
>
> Foxtrotgps uses %g format while writing .gpx log file. Since %g
> without precision specification outputs (at most) 6 digits typically
> only 4 digits are output after decimal point for latitude and
> longitude (actually 3-5 depending on location). This results in fairly
> low precison, which makes such a log file useless.

You're right that %g is the wrong formatter to be using for something
like this (we're not /actually/ measuring distance from the prime
meridian, so something like "100.33 degrees" doesn't actually have more
precision than "1.333 degrees").

This is fixed upstream, pending release:

    http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~foxtrotgps-team/foxtrotgps/trunk/revision/200


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