[opensource-dev] Review Request: STORM-1793 1) Treat all mini-map altitudes above 1020 m as the same height 2) Improve z-level accuracy

[Nicky D.]

Or you could as well make a new message, then alternate it with the current one.
Eg. instead of sending CoarseLocation update every x (lets say 5 )
seconds,you send
 0 - CoarseLocation
 5 - CoarseLocationNew
10 - CoarseLocation
15 - CoarseLocationNew

And so on.

- Old clients would lose update precision. But not be broken.

- New clients would use both messages and get X/Y updates at the same
interval as today.
For Z they could interpolate if the old message send an 'out of
range'-Z value. Or just live with
the lower Z update frequency. Both would still be vastly better than
what we have now.

- The amount of message the simulator has to send would not increase.

Phase out the old message by reducing its frequency after a few month, then stop
sending it at all. Whoever did not update their code by that time
could be considered
badly outdated.