What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)
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Re: What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)
#2Discussions on similar submissions:
What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146454 (January 25, 2020 — 2 points, 0 comments)
What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22145303 (January 24, 2020 — 188 points, 53 comments)
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Re: What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)
#3If you want to dive even deeper into datums around the world, there's a site dedicated to it: https://www.asprs.org/asprs-publications/grids-and-datums
You'll find many countries in there with a bit of history of their datums and how they arrived at their present state. It's a dry reading that can be fascinating at the same time.
Re: What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)
#4Well since the author did not talk to Google we will not find out by reading this article.
Re: What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)
#5Well since the author did not talk to Google we will not find out by reading this article.
In their defense, the tectonic plates will have moved a __lot__ before you can expect to get any response from Google support.
Re: What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)
#6The Australian tectonic plates move about 7cm a year, if you didn't adjust for it they'd be losing 2-5 thousand dollars a year as the fence moved in many suburban homes. Of course you'd gain it on the other side.
Google needs to be dealing with it constantly, you'd be able to observe more errors on Google maps, ie. look at Google directions and how often mistakes are made, if it wasn't updated monthly? I'd guess yearly is not enough.
Most of this article seems to be about other issues.
Re: What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)
#7They update the data on a regular basis, like they had to do in Japan in 2011 after the tsunami. They even flew planes to capture imagery in the immediate aftermath.
Re: What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)
#8It's so crazy, never thought about this before
Re: What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)
#9FWIW, global drift vectors by NASA: https://sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov/post/series.html
Re: What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)
#10Well up in canada we have 5 year old google street data, and nobody even updates business hours on 80k+ cities...