Pose Covariance for swiftnav_ros rtk message

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Hello all,

I am using Piski Multi RTK gps system for centimeter accurate pose information.

Below is a snapshot of a Nav_msgs::Odometry message, as published by the swiftnav_ros package, after taking my little robot outside and driving it around, with the gps in RTK mode.

header: 
  seq: 183
  stamp: 
    secs: 1507219077
    nsecs: 699150124
  frame_id: gps
child_frame_id: ''
pose: 
  pose: 
    position: 
      x: 2.89
      y: 4.694
      z: -0.749
    orientation: 
      x: 0.0
      y: 0.0
      z: 0.0
      w: 0.0
covariance: [324000000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 324000000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1296000000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1000.0]
twist: 
  twist: 
    linear: 
      x: -1.111
      y: 0.852
      z: 0.016
    angular: 
      x: 0.0
      y: 0.0
      z: 0.0
  covariance: [0.0022500000000000003, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0022500000000000003, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0046500000000000005, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1000.0]
---
header: 
  seq: 184
  stamp: 
    secs: 1507219077
    nsecs: 799420749
  frame_id: gps
child_frame_id: ''
pose: 
  pose: 
    position: 
      x: 2.779
      y: 4.766
      z: -0.75
    orientation: 
      x: 0.0
      y: 0.0
      z: 0.0
      w: 0.0
covariance: [324000000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 324000000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1296000000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1000.0]
twist: 
  twist: 
    linear: 
      x: -1.099
      y: 0.715
      z: -0.026
    angular: 
      x: 0.0
      y: 0.0
      z: 0.0
  covariance: [0.0022500000000000003, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0022500000000000003, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0046500000000000005, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1000.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1000.0]

Please note that the covariances for x, y, and z pose are 529000000.0, 529000000.0, and 2601000000.0, respectively.

These numbers seem obsenely large, or is this normal and correct? The numbers for the twist message seem reasonable.. My piksi was definitely in RTK Mode ... (more)