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Oh wow, reality comes knocking just when I stopped laughing about China and their silly distorted reference system! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4022007
by lolc 2y ago
Oh wow, reality comes knocking just when I stopped laughing about China and their silly distorted reference system! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40220072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40220072
From my armchair I recommend an automated edit at unprecedented scale: Apply tectonic shift to all nodes every year. This would allow keeping WGS84 while keeping the map closer to the present.
- solardev 2y agoThis already happens! There's a global effort to measure and update these every few years, and that creates "realizations" (versions) of the ITRS reference frame: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1803 https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1803