[OSM-talk] Working with lat and long simply
john whelan
jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 18:46:35 UTC 2016
I see to recall that Australia is on the move. So it would seem that we
should retain as much accuracy as possible then if we're a metre out it
isn't quite so important.
I think any generic addressing scheme is going to suffer from parts of the
world moving though and it is a limitation we have to work with. From a
practical point of view just grabbing a new address every decade would
probably work fairly well.
Cheerio John
On 10 Sep 2016 2:26 pm, "Colin Smale" <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 2016-09-10 18:55, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote:
>
> Latitude and longitude are physical values, they will never change for a
> house on Earth, no matter what. They do not depend on politics, economics,
> linguistics of the current moment.
>
>
>
> You sure about that? Plate tectonics means that everything is in motion,
> albeit slowly. On top of that there have been a couple of "adjustments" to
> WGS84 which have caused coordinates to change.
>
> //colin
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