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The center of population is somewhere near the center of the Earth. The standard map with Europe in the middle is just an historical influence too!
by jules 14y ago
The center of population is somewhere near the center of the Earth. The standard map with Europe in the middle is just an historical influence too!
- rdl 14y agoUsually people just use the surface of the earth for this. The funny thing is calculating it at high resolution would require classified data (the best measures of the exact shape of the earth are classified; they are used in ICBM flight path calculations, and deviation from an oblate spheroid is significant when you want to put something on a tennis court from the other side of the world. The exact distribution of mass (some concentrations of heavier materials) and magnetism (for MAD detection of submarines) are similar.