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Relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/2170/ https://xkcd.com/2170/ For some fun with geogson and unintended precision - https://rapidlasso.com/2019/05/06/how-many-d
by shagie 4y ago
Relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/2170/ https://xkcd.com/2170/
For some fun with geogson and unintended precision - https://rapidlasso.com/2019/05/06/how-many-decimal-digits-for-storing-longitude-latitude/ https://rapidlasso.com/2019/05/06/how-many-decimal-digits-fo...
> Recently I came across this tweet containing the image below and it made me laugh … albeit not in the original way the tweet intended. The tweet was joking that “Anyone is able to open a GeoJSON file” and included the Microsoft Word screen shot seen below as a response to someone else tweeting that “Handing in a project as @GeoJSON. Let’s see if I get the usual “I can’t open this file” even though […]”. What was funny to me was seeing longitude and latitude coordinates stored with 15 decimal digits right of the decimal point.
Also of interest in precision - https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/8650/measuring-accuracy-of-latitude-and-longitude/ https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/8650/measuring-accur...