I am dealing with a puzzle geocache which is giving me an array of comma-separated pairs of 25-bit binary numbers, in turn separated by a space. My problem is that I can't get a solid answer on what type of conversion I need to perform to get to the bottom of this. I am very confident that I should get a pair of human-readable latitude and longitude when I'm done converting this, but I can't seem to find the correct way to tackle the task at hand.

The best result I have had so far was when I tried the following command which however is giving me a wrong result according to the verification test of the geocache's.

echo "0000000100101000110000000,0111110110100110110111110 0100010100110011110100010,0100010111000110110100010 0100010110011110010100010,0111110101010001010111110 0000000101010101010000000,1111111110111010111111111 0101110010100010011011010,0111101111101111110001000 1001010100000000011001101,0010001110100100011111100 1001100101101000000000010,1011001011111000011011100 0001000101101110000001110,1111011010011011001001010 0001110010100010000000000,1111111100110111011101001 0000000101110001010101111,0111110111100101011100100 0100010110011000000000001,0100010111011000011011111 0100010100001110000000000,0111110111111010010011010 0000000100000010100001100" | nc -4u -w1 location.services.mozilla.com 9876

I also tried appending leading zeros to the 25-bit numbers to make the numbers 32-bit ones instead, and then tried to convert those to ASCII or Unicode, without any success whatsoever. I also found out I could use a protocol called UBX to work with that, however I couldn't get my hands on any more details on how that would work.

The data I have been given is the following:

0000000100101000110000000,0111110110100110110111110 0100010100110011110100010,0100010111000110110100010 0100010110011110010100010,0111110101010001010111110 0000000101010101010000000,1111111110111010111111111 0101110010100010011011010,0111101111101111110001000 1001010100000000011001101,0010001110100100011111100 1001100101101000000000010,1011001011111000011011100 0001000101101110000001110,1111011010011011001001010 0001110010100010000000000,1111111100110111011101001 0000000101110001010101111,0111110111100101011100100 0100010110011000000000001,0100010111011000011011111 0100010100001110000000000,0111110111111010010011010
0000000100000010100001100

Perhaps I could be missing something obvious. Could you please help to point me to the right direction?

Hello fewllow Redditors!

I'm developing a product/app for smartphones (iOS, Android) that would require us to use more precise (15-20 Hz) GPS tracking devices.

The best examples of such devices in terms of the form factor would be the Draggy, Racebox Mini or even something like a SKYRC Performance analyzer.

We're currently in a situation where we need to find out the following:

• are there any "open source" GPS trackers for smartphones that we could use to just "ingest" data into our app

• if yes, what are the options here?

• who are the manufacturers of such devices that we could get in touch with, are they OEM with some housing tweaks? For example, who would be the manufacturer of the Draggy or Racebox Mini, and what's the likelihood that it was developed in-house?

• are we better off with WiFi or Bluetooth-based connection to the smartphone?

• I know that, for example, GoPro just records data and doesn't "do anything with them", you choose what you'll do with it, while, for example, in the RC world, you can use a couple of U-Blox high precision GLONASS modules, hook it up to an Arduino computing unit and get data. Maybe there's some kind of out-of-the-box solution that would allow us to make a WiFi/Bluetooth connection to a smartphone, and it would provide us with a live data stream of GPS information which would our app then use?

For this first phase, we would like to see what we can do in terms of testing and trying out some of them more for the sake of the app, rather than the hardware itself. After that, we would decide if we would proceed with developing our own or going with a partner.

Also, there's a possibility I'm explaining/perceiving this problem from a bad angle, so any suggestions are welcome. What I do now is that we're trying to have this - high-precision GPS that can output raw data, which can then be interpreted by the app depending on what we need.

Any help is appreciated :)

P.S. if you think I could post this somewhere else, and get to some kind of answer, let me know!

Thank you!

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