Today, centimeters decide again. β½
A goal or an offside often comes down to a margin barely wider than the ball.
We don't measure soccer. But in the field, that same precision is our work. ππ
#rtk#gnss#precisionfarming#rtkdata
RTK Reality Check
Myth: cm accuracy means your data fits.
Reality: precision β the right coordinate frame
Measure to the centimeter, still be off by half a meter, all because the frame is wrong. WGS84, ETRS89 & national datums can differ. Precise & correct aren't the same word
This week we brought RTKdata to Saarland University in Germany.
We showed students what we do: centimeter-level RTK corrections
from 20,000 stations in 140 countries, with the hardware they already use.
If you'd stopped by, what would you have asked us? π
#RTK#GNSS
Formula Student Skidpad cones: 18.25 m apart.
Standalone GNSS error: 2 to 5 m.
The math does not work.
PWR Racing fixed it with RTKdata NTRIP over cellular. Pi Zero β SIM7080G β Xsens MTi-680G. 1-2 cm accuracy. No base station.
Full case study π
rtkdata.com/blog
Your robotic mower knows the lawn.
Until GPS drifts 1-3m.
RTKdata streams RTK over NTRIP to any receiver: 1-2 cm accuracy, real time. No base station, no boundary wire.
Free for 30 days π±
π rtkdata.com/try-rtk-correctiβ¦#rtk#gnss#robotics
Today is International Building Safety Day.
A good day to recognize the surveyors and layout crews who set every footing and bearing wall before the concrete pour.
Their precision keeps the rest of the building safe for decades.
#RTK#RTKdata
Every transmission tower used to demand a climb. Not anymore.
Drone inspections with Network RTK now cover most of what crews used to climb to find.
Crews still climb. But they know what they're climbing to.
What's your drone-to-climb ratio looking like this year?
#RTK
A failed RTK link cost AeroAg $37,500 on one job. Five pilots stranded three days.
Switched to RTKdata in about 10 minutes. Free trial, no card, pilot flying again same day.
Now covering three states at 1-2 cm.
Ever been grounded waiting on a fix?
#RTK#RTKdata#Blog
Lost an RTK fix in clean sky?
Corrections probably aren't the issue.
Three things still kill a fix when the correction stream is healthy: blocked sky, RF interference, no cellular.
Spot the cause and the fix is usually quick.
Which one wrecks more of your jobs?
#RTKdata
Receiver isn't what wrecks your day. The corrections feeding it are. Network RTK pulls six constellations so you can drop the base station hassle.
Dropped fixes or hauling bases, what's worse on your jobs this season?
GPS World, Mar/Apr 2026
#RTK#GPSWorld#RTKdata
Happy Labor Day.
Thanks to the surveyors, construction crews, farmers, and drone pilots we work with every day.
And to our own team behind the scenes keeping things running. None of it works without you. π°οΈ
#LaborDay#GNSS#Surveying
A 20 Hz stream of a bad fix is still a bad fix.
βRTK myth: higher update rates = better accuracy.
β Reality:
Hz decides how often you see the position, not how good it is.
Accuracy comes from corrections, fix stability, and signal quality.
#RTK#GNSS#RTKdata
Earth Day 2026. π
A tractor running RTK corrections can hold its line to 1β2 cm, pass after pass.
Every centimeter it doesn't drift is fertilizer, fuel and soil the field doesn't lose.
#EarthDay2026
On pipeline projects, the goal isn't to build faster.
It's to make sure the line you built is the line you planned.
Stakeout that holds. Welds logged to survey-grade accuracy. As-built data your GIS team can actually use.
That's what RTK corrections do. π
Most positioning errors in the field come from uncorrected GNSS, not bad equipment.
Standard GPS: 3β10 m. RTK via ground reference network: Β±1β2 cm.π‘
At what point did your team switch to corrected GNSS? Or haven't made the switch yet?
Try it free at rtkdata.comπ
Happy Easter! π°π°οΈ
Even our Easter Bunny plans every egg drop with centimeter-level precision.
Because at RTKdata, "close enough" was never an option. π―
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3 days at XPONENTIAL 2026 last week.
Everyone was talking hardware. But the real conversation? Positioning accuracy.
Every drone & VTOL there is only as reliable as the correction data feeding it.
That's what we built RTKdata for.
Test it 30 days free at rtkdata.comπ