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I can't believe that this is actually copyrighted. How can such a foundational standard not be public domain? What's next? Copyrighting latitude and longitude?
by etaioinshrdlu 6y ago
I can't believe that this is actually copyrighted. How can such a foundational standard not be public domain?
What's next? Copyrighting latitude and longitude?
(China for the record, doesn't want you to know the lat/lon of anything in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat...)
- suprfsat 6y agoLatitude and longitude are in the public domain, being inventions of the US military.
- robjan 6y agoThe idea of latitude and longitude was invented in Greece couple of millennia ago and the first accurate instrument to measure them was invented by the John Harrison, a Brit, before the USA was founded.
- diarrhea 6y agoSuch US-centric thinking reminds me of one of my favourite terms: the USS Titanic.
- maxnoe 6y agoHahaha, no. Why would the 0deg longitude be at the Greenwhich Observatory if the US military invented it???
- globular-toast 6y agoIs this comment perhaps referring to the WGS84 datum?