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Earth's Magnetic North Pole Is Officially Moving – Scientists Just Updated Its Location
It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, as the position of the magnetic North Pole is officially ...
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It’s round, it’s two-sided and it could be the most accurate world map created till date
A team of three mapmakers, led by J Richard Gott from Princeton University, have come up with a new kind of map that claims to be the most accurate, yet flat, depiction of the world yet.
PC Magazine5y
map accuracy
(1) (Data West Research Agency definition: see GIS glossary.) The closeness of results of observations, computations, or estimates of graphic map features to their true value or position.
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Are your maps accurate? How these tools can struggle to capture our world
You’ve (probably) never seen the world unless you’ve served a stint on the International Space Station. Only a few hundred ...
PC Magazine5y
planimetric map
(Data West Research Agency definition: see GIS glossary.) A map showing only the horizontal position of features on the Earth's surface which show geographic objects, natural and cultural physical ...