GPS-derived location accuracy

Advertising semantics

A GPS fix's reported horizontal accuracy (often tens to hundreds of meters, worse indoors/urban canyon) is frequently discarded downstream, letting a low-accuracy fix be indexed at a resolution finer than it can support.

Detection

Fix accuracy radius greater than the edge length of the H3 resolution being indexed to.

Mitigation

  • Cap H3 indexing resolution to the fix's reported accuracy radius
  • Drop or down-weight fixes with accuracy worse than a defined ceiling (e.g. > 500 m)

Affected conversions

  • PointH3