Timeline for Measuring accuracy of latitude and longitude
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| Mar 31, 2020 at 19:36 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2020 at 14:56 | comment | added | Feckmore | @John, I believe you mean to say the precision of a decimal degree of longitude increases as you get closer to the poles, while the distance per degree shrinks. | |
| Oct 20, 2019 at 22:54 | comment | added | Gabriel De Luca | You are totally correct. That is why it is safe to say that the error due to imprecision in one degree is at most 111km. That is, if there were trees near the poles, it would not be necessary to reach the fifth decimal in longitudes to differentiate one from the other. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 19:16 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2019 at 19:10 | history | answered | John | CC BY-SA 4.0 |