On 1 March 2011 14:57, Esa <esa.ilm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Six decimal places is the most often used accuracy for positioning
> markers. That means about one meter accuracy.
>
> Five decimal places used in encoding gives about ten meter accuracy
> that is good for displaying routes in most cases.
>
> 14 decimal places would mean one nanometer accuracy! That is wasting
> of bytes.
>

Ha. 14dp === 1nm.

Yeh. When Google can start mapping the path of the molecules of a
sneeze ... then maybe 14dp would be useful.

5dp sounds fine now - once explained.

Thank you.

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