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by NotYourLawyer 874 days ago
I was thinking that you’d need a pretty accurate clock reference to do this, automatically triggering based on a microphone to log the time.

But I guess not. Sound is slow on a distance scale of miles, so timing it to the nearest second is good enough.

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A person's auditory reaction time is probably below 1s and that would throw off your calculation by ~340m. Most farms are larger than 340m in any direction so you still end up within the same property area.
GPS sync allows phones to have accurate time to within microseconds if not hundreds of nanoseconds. Since sound travels ~300 m/s even 100ms only adds about 30 meters error. That's more than accurate enough to pin point a plot of land.