POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Database Questions : Re: Database Questions Server Time
3 Sep 2024 19:16:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Database Questions  
From: Tom Austin
Date: 9 Mar 2011 12:04:35
Message: <4d77b323$1@news.povray.org>
On 3/8/2011 5:03 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>
> Until the GPS coordinates turn out to have been inaccurate. GPS is only
> accurate to a few hundred yards of course, so different people will
> probably get different measurements depending on where they're standing.
> That's probably not a great idea. (Unless you explicitly round the
> coordinates up to some number that makes the size of the actual
> intersection negligable.)
>

I just ran across this where the GPS coordinate was wrong in a 
government data set - likely due to a typo.


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