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suprfsat
on April 2, 2021
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I bought ISO 8601-1:2019 and 8601-2:2019
Latitude and longitude are in the public domain, being inventions of the US military.
robjan
on April 3, 2021
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The idea of latitude and longitude was invented in Greece couple of millennia ago and the first accurate instrument to measure them was invented by the John Harrison, a Brit, before the USA was founded.
diarrhea
on April 3, 2021
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Such US-centric thinking reminds me of one of my favourite terms: the
USS Titanic
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maxnoe
on April 3, 2021
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Hahaha, no.
Why would the 0deg longitude be at the Greenwhich Observatory if the US military invented it???
globular-toast
on April 3, 2021
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Is this comment perhaps referring to the WGS84 datum?
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