On 21/07/06, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Working with co-ordinates has made me wonder about their use. It seems a bit bizarre to represent a huge country (or ocean, river, etc) with one random dot. Is there any neat, standardised way to refer to geographic areas? I can't think of one...any ideas?
One problem is that many users give the co-ordinates of a place to fractions of arcseconds. Cities do not, and should not, have co-ordinates given to the second. Tens of minutes (one minute is 1.86 km at sea level) should suffice.