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Hmm I can see it from that angle... the comic works if we presume Cueball on the left has never seen or used a GPS-powered app. GPS was not really novel in 201
by jessekv 2y ago
Hmm I can see it from that angle... the comic works if we presume Cueball on the left has never seen or used a GPS-powered app.
GPS was not really novel in 2014, so for me it's a bit of a stretch.
On the other hand, Randall Munroe would be the last person to take GPS for granted, so this is probably a correct interpretation.
- acdha 2y agoGPS wasn’t novel but GIS was less common and especially so for the open source side of things. I think that conversation makes sense if you read the first part not as “get the latitude and longitude where the photo was taken” but as “determine whether those coordinates fall within a polygon in the NPS set” where it’s not very hard but does require a little bit of work if you don’t already have an existing GIS setup.
- cortesoft 2y agoMany people also don't know that photos encode the geo-location where they were taken, which is a big part of that part being feasible.