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Damn! 7cm per year feels blazing fast when you consider the fact that it's a whole continent.
I mean I'm still mind blown that the Three Gorges dam in China literally changed the rotational speed of the Earth, and thus the length of the day.
It's a lot more expensive, but measuring navigation distance rather than straight line distance would avoid the "river" issue. Although depending on the routing engine and dataset it might well introduce more issues where points can be really close on foot but the only known route is a driving route.
If you know of an API which does navigation distance to POI, I'd love to hear about it!
You could select from a list of schools, with distances given as straight-line distance (or perhaps as route distance? I can't tell from the articles I've read), which meant some of the schools across the river were considered "close".
In one case, a student had a 45 minute commute to get to school, due to waiting for the ferry. The parents listed it as their 5th choice, based on the stated distance. The more critical factor should be travel time, but the computer system doesn't take mass transit schedules into account.
As a contributing factor, the list of schools did not include the name of the stadsdel in the list of schools. This extra sort of reverse geocoding - trivially available - might have helped them realize the issue.
One news story about it, in Swedish: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vast/kaos-i-antagningssyst...
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accounts for (something) , phrasal verb meaning "considers; incorporates; takes on board" as opposed to the more obvious "gives rise to; is responsible for". I had to read twice too
Yeah, I know what "accounts for" means. I just can't comprehend how GPS coordinates could account for the tectonic plates' motion. Never heard of such a thing, and can't see how it would work on a conceptual, mathematical level.
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That's about correcting the ground stations' coordinates. It doesn't help keeping your house's GPS coordinates fixed. If the tectonic plate your house is built on moves a meter over the course of a decade, then your house's GPS coords will change in the lower decimals, and eventually your government's land registry will need to update those values.
Hopefully there are still governments that don’t keep such in detail land registries, or any land registries at all, for that matter. Some of us don’t want the State to see everything, at almost every moment in time.
Not my area of expertise, but is this not a form of perfectionist problem? I mean, most places have a clear and simple address. For the rest, either a human can solve it, or we can make a few examples and let an AI do the work. We can go back to them later and revise them if we need to. Addresses don't change often, so I think things can stay the same for a long time. Except for emergency dispatch and a few high-prof…
Sending a Romanian truck driver to a vague address in Holland such as ‘port terminal B somewhere on road 999’ and leaving him to figure it out for himself is not a solution.
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Hopefully there are still governments that don’t keep such in detail land registries, or any land registries at all, for that matter. Some of us don’t want the State to see everything, at almost every moment in time.
If the state doesn't know that you own a piece of land, then you don't own that piece of land. Simple as.
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You simply do not own any peice of land at all. The state owns all the land. You simply lease it.
Well, in some countries this might be true.
If I were giving directions to another human and not using house addresses I'd say something like "Queen street about half way down the block between Crawford and Shaw"
That's great for cities with a grid layout, but ignores most of the world. How would you give directions to something in the middle of a park?