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by politelemon
815 days ago
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If you want to dive even deeper into datums around the world, there's a site dedicated to it: https://www.asprs.org/asprs-publications/grids-and-datums You'll find many countries in there with a bit of history of their datums and how they arrived at their present state. It's a dry reading that can be fascinating at the same time. |
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I'm a surveyor by trade and you hit the nail on the head.
One of my favorite parts about this stuff is the history, and how we humans have tried to understand the shape of our world better and better. And then how we've attempted to make that shape conform to a flat map so we can measure on it better.
Fascinating stuff.