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As A USGS Employee Working In Spatial Data: hehehehehehehehe
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xkcd.com/2920/ <-- link to XKCD cartoon
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"The standard North American NAD83 coordinate system is misaligned from the actual Earth, off-centre by about 7 feet. Someone knows where I am, and I'm in the wrong place."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #humour #humor #datums #coordinatesystems #NAD83 #NAVD88 #mappymeme #survey #USGS #NGS #benchmark #surveymarker #NorthAmerica #geodetic #geodesy
@XKCD

Since I use Coordinate Reference Systems on a daily basis I have to search them for different reasons (usually because a customer is using the wrong one). I decided to develop a webpage to search them quickly, and get useful information. A few months later we moved it into the PROJ.org domain.
You have it at crs-explorer.proj.org/
Now there is not a single day I do not use it. It was worth it the investment.

crs-explorer.proj.orgCRS Explorer - PROJ

The Armed Forces of switch to the WGS-84 world coordinate system, commonly used by countries, instead of the Soviet SK-42, which is accurate only for the territory of the former .
Establishing of the Alliance will improve the compatibility of troops and ensure the exchange of data between the Ukrainian army and other states. With the transition to -84 maps will become more accurate since SK-42 was based on a different mathematical model of the .