Posted on 08/12/2022 4:45:46 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
Historical Landmark Brandon Falls
38.74151465955257 N, 75.08179541442374 W
Prediction: roadsigns to be placed under surveillance.
Brandon Falls
Somebody once posted the bike 🚲 gif.
We sure do live in interesting times.
Expect a knock on your door from the FBI
They’ll be there to plant incriminating evidence and to sniff your wife’s undies.
I understand there is an architect design a home to be built over it. Calling it Brandon Falls.
LOL
Such a home was built by Frank Lloyd Wright here in western Pennsyltucky, directly over a small spring branch which trickles down the hillside. He named it “Falling Waters”. Your suggestion sounds about right.
That’s a very precise location — down to the hundred-trillionth of a degree, or less than two nanometers.
I’ve read it’s a frequent traffic hazard as people re-enact the “fall of SlowJoe” and take phone pics. Of course they don’t have a battalion of SecServ agents to block traffic.
One pixel. I’m getting 10 nanometers when I multiply it out in Excel, changing the value by one in the least significant digit. It’s the value google gives when you right click on the tip of the pushpin marker.
Either way, it’s far, far beyond the ability of any GPS to measure. Most of those digits are meaningless.
We can only hope!
No argument, I just took what google gave me. It is way beyond the pixel level resolution of google maps. WGS-84 is simply an ellipsoid, completely independent of GPS. It was adopted from ERS-80, an international standard. The ellipsoid is just a convenient way of specifying points on and near the surface of the earth. It’s just a coordinate system.
I saw someone selling a Welcome to Brandon Falls t-shirt online. It has a beautiful photo of a fall...
I’m not faulting you, just pointing out that Google’s algorithm or whatever apparently places no realistic limit on how many places it carries out results to, yielding absurd levels of precision.
I didn’t mean to sound defensive. Your observation is correct, I was just explaining how we got to 16 decimal places. I just do what google tells me.
“I just do what google tells me.”
Please don’t let it navigate for you when you’re driving, especially at night. ;)
Hi.
I hope you are doing well.
Remember, Google Maps kept moving the Wuhan Virology Institute from the Wet market for three months.
They almost put the Institute into the South China sea.
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