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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Proving flat earth by using online maps
« on: May 22, 2017, 07:38:26 PM »
while this is an interesting and potentially fruitful exercise, i would not use google maps.
they clearly incorporate the ball-nuts stuff:
they clearly incorporate the ball-nuts stuff:
The trouble with this "proof" is that it assumes that the software that Google provides is assuming either a curved or a flat earth model when it converts your mouse clicks to lat/long coordinates and when it converts lat/long coordinates into kilometer distances.
If it's written one way you'll get one answer and if it's written the other way you'll get the other.
So all you can prove is that the Google software engineers are working in RE or FE coordinates.
This discussion proves nothing about the real world - all it proves is that Google take one set of shortcuts or another in their software.