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As a conversation topic in our engineering team recently, we discussed what the shortest possible message you could send to pinpoint as specific a position on e
by knodi123 4y ago
As a conversation topic in our engineering team recently, we discussed what the shortest possible message you could send to pinpoint as specific a position on earth, unambiguously, in as few possible characters, in plain readable non-coded language.
Like "top of the great pyramid", for example, looks like it is a 200 sq ft area, in 25 characters of message.
- Oxidation 4y ago0N0E, maybe (Null Island)? Depending on if latitude and longitude count as coded or not. Otherwise "Burj tip" could be quite good (centimetres).
- knodi123 4y agoI don't think 0n0e would count- too coded. But "Burj Tip" is great, it might have won the contest (judging involved lots of arguing)! Alas, we already ate the prize though, so you're out of luck.
- Symbiote 4y agoK2 peak Top K2 90°S 0,0 Ø in Denmark doesn't really compete, nor the many villages called Å in Norway. For the opposite, the most area with the fewest letters, Io, Sun and Space.
- was_a_dev 4y ago"S Pole"? Six characters for an exact point on Earth.
- mttch 4y agoPossibly ambiguous by a few km, as it could be the geographic South Pole, the magnetic South Pole or even the geomagnetic South Pole.
- jwilk 4y agoThe geographic South pole and the magnetic South pole are almost 3 thousand km apart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_magnetic_pole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_magnetic_pole
- twic 4y ago"Rad Cam" gets you a ~800 square metre circle. U-995 gets you an ovoid 67.10 metres by 6.20 metres.