Ribbit-Network / ribbit-network-frog-hardware

The sensor for the world's largest crowdsourced network of open-source, low-cost, GHG Gas Detection Sensors.
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Obfuscate GPS Lat/Long Coordinates #41

Closed keenanjohnson closed 3 years ago

keenanjohnson commented 3 years ago

In Discussion 27 in the Dashboard Repo, we discussed that the GPS Latitutde and Longitude coordinates should be truncated or obfuscated.

This has two big benefits:

For some context about spatial resolution and location precision, NOAA's High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model which is used to make those smoke maps you may have seen, is at 3 km spatial resolution. Another high resolution data product is NASA/ORNL's DayMet which is 1 km spatial resolution. To get 1 kilometer spatial resolution, that is about 0.01 degrees of precision.

This change is to round the latitude and longitude coordinates to 0.01 degrees or precision (2 decimal places)

keenanjohnson commented 3 years ago

I've just deployed this change. You can see that the coordinates are rounded: image