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I was expecting something Mapping/GIS related, given [1], but maybe that's just the mental scar-tissue from a previous project involving various data sources th
by shabble 12y ago
I was expecting something Mapping/GIS related, given [1], but maybe that's just the mental scar-tissue from a previous project involving various data sources that were in formats not quite entirely unlike the ones they purported to actually be. Which meant, along with one incredibly badly designed viewer application, I could legitimately say "I spent almost an hour dragging myself out of the ocean" in a worklog entry :P
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_...
- geogra4 12y agoBack in a previous life I used to work for a software company in the defense/GIS space. It's pretty incredible how much labour goes in to making the earth somehow representable as a series of X, Y and Z tuples. The difference between floating and fixed point could mean being off by dozens of metres.