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In a sense, they are right. There are several coordinate systems, but the one everyone uses (WGS84) was developed around the time of GPS and intended to be used
by cameronh90 3y ago
In a sense, they are right. There are several coordinate systems, but the one everyone uses (WGS84) was developed around the time of GPS and intended to be used for that purpose.
So GPS coordinates isn’t really a bad way to describe them.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoTechnically if they’re only using Google Maps they’re probably working off a projection of that coordinate system (Web Mercator).
- somat 3y agoThis is not what the anybody was remotely talking about, but I am feeling pedantic, and I thought it a fun fact. GPS native coordinates are actually a 3d Cartesian grid, however polar coordinates are so much more convenient to us living as we are on the surface of a sphere, I don't think anything outside of the deep internals of a gps receiver use the raw ecef coordinate system. https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1793 https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1793