XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: thomas.e.elam@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/16/2025 12:36 PM, Alan Browne wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-16 09:58, Tom Elam wrote:   
   >> On 12/16/2025 12:13 AM, Marian wrote:   
   >>> The reason this ng is a cesspool, is because all Apple trolls are   
   >>> stupid.   
   >>>   
   >>> Apple trolls like Alan Baker are so incredibly stupid, they can't even   
   >>> understand the basic plus/minus attributes of the GPS coordinate system.   
   >>>   
   >>>     35.294025420000004    126.77482604000001   
   >>   
   >> Those lat/long coordinates are incomplete. Could be   
   >>   
   >> 35.294025420000004 N   126.77482604000001 E South Korea   
   >> 35.294025420000004 N   126.77482604000001 W Ocean west of California   
   >> 35.294025420000004 S   126.77482604000001 E Ocean south of Australia   
   >> 35.294025420000004 S   126.77482604000001 W Pacific Ocean off S. America   
   >>   
   >> The stupidity here is failure to completely specify the lat/long.   
   >> About an 40 IQ level of stupid.   
   >   
   > Typically in "digital" position reporting the lack of sign is considered   
   > a positive value, therefore North and East.   
   >   
   > What I find stupid in so many position reporting systems is specifying   
   > the position resolution to about the size of an atom, as above.   
   >   
   > At 4 digits after the decimal you are at ~11.1 metres resolution, at 5   
   > digits, 1.1m (in Latitude)   
   > For longitude multiply by cos(lat) to approximate the resolution error.   
   >   
   > (For the mathy types, a degree of latitude is 60 minutes, and a minute   
   > of latitude is very close to a nautical mile = 1852m -   
   > So 1 deg = 60 * 1852m = 111,120m - or @ 4th digit 1/10,000 of that...)   
   >   
   > (re-posted)   
   >   
   On a quiz where we were to find a ground target and record the position   
   my answer was marked wrong for not including North and West. Even though   
   in the context the target was know to be in the continental U.S.!   
      
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