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by mnw21cam 3597 days ago
And of course, nobody has thought of the possibility of including an accuracy radius with the position, so instead of having a point saying "It's here", you have "It's anywhere within this area".
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Anyone that's driving out to a farm without checking other data sources will probably just ignore the accuracy radius.
It's the same with site metrics, or sensors in IoT - your measurement isn't X, it's X +/- Y, with some measurement error distribution.