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Not-very-useful GPS traces

Postet gant Sam Wilson da 13 May 2013 e English.

I think there must be a very large number of GPS trace points at the intersection of the equator at the prime meridian (what’s that place called anyway?).

I’m afraid I’ve been fool enough to add quite a few of these myself! Oops. Sorry.

I’ve modified one of the gpsbable scripts that I use to prepare NMEA files, chopping out anything around (0,0), so all should be fine from now on.

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Evezhiadenn a-berzh Baloo Uriza d'an 13 May 2013 da 04:45

The intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian is called “the origin.”

Evezhiadenn a-berzh Sam Wilson d'an 13 May 2013 da 04:56

Ah! Cool. Thanks. :-)

Evezhiadenn a-berzh AndrewBuck d'an 14 May 2013 da 19:34

Also known as “null island”. A lot of stuff ends up there. Not just GPS traces but nodes, etc. You also see a lot on the equator that obiously don’t belong there where just one coord got 0.0 and I assume the same happens along the meridian. I have also heard the poles collect nodes too but haven’t seen it myself.

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