Back 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 someh

Back 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.