[michaelt]

> It's a bit of shame that the pricing seems to be rather steep for frivolous use

The pricing norms for RTK correction networks were set 20 years ago, when operating your own base station meant buying a second $20,000 dual frequency receiver, and taking an extra guy any time you go out to do a survey, whose job is just to guard the base station.

This made a $2000 a year network correction service seem like great value for money!

Some networks offer more affordable options these days - such as weekly and hourly licenses for drone pilots.

[RedlineTriad]

The swiss solution does come with per hour pricing but it's still 0.50 CHF / minute. Which is still very expensive for hobbyists.

I feel like the marginal costs for users is so low that it would be better if it were handled as a common good like GNSS systems themselves.

[gytisgreitai]

That is insane. My mower runs for ~100 minutes per day. This means 50CHF per day which as I see is around 50 euros. Home made base station cost with unicore gnss is around 220 euros…

[Leherenn]

The traditional use case was for surveyors to use it. In that regard it's pretty cheap.

[toomuchtodo]

This should be another crowdsourced sensor fabric network, like air quality sensors, AIS, ADS-B, distributed SDR, etc.

[barnabee]

https://www.onocoy.com/ seems to be doing just that.

I have no affiliation, and no strong opinion on their specific approach, but I do find it interesting and have thought about running a node, especially since enjoying fiddling around with LoRa / Meshtastic.

[gytisgreitai]

http://rtk2go.com/

[BenjiWiebe]

We've got a ublox ZED-F9P feeding into that. Station name JasonWiebeDairy. We set it up for RTK for AgOpenGPS - a FOSS auto-steer/mapping/control for agriculture.

[summm]

https://docs.centipede.fr/ Currently only really working in France and Hungary.