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08-01-2016, 12:44 PM
Australia won't stop drifting so it needs to fix its GPS coordinates
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Unfortunately for your global positioning system (GPS), Australia just won't stay still.
Being the renegade that it is, the only continent that is also a country is moving **rth by about 7 centimetres (2.8 inches) each year, Dan Jaksa from Geoscience Australia told the ABC (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-28/why-it-matters-that-australias-coordinates-are-moving/7668014). That's put the local coordinates out of whack by about 1.5 metres (4.9 feet).
SEE ALSO: Amount of Australians listing The Force as their religion is unnervingly large (http://mashable.com/2016/08/01/australia-census-jedi/)
Being exact about where the country is at matters, **w more than ever. As Jaksa pointed out, there are myriad devices and tech**logies reliant on GPS, from Pokémon Go to auto-pilot car functions. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/01/australia-drifting-gps/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Unfortunately for your global positioning system (GPS), Australia just won't stay still.
Being the renegade that it is, the only continent that is also a country is moving **rth by about 7 centimetres (2.8 inches) each year, Dan Jaksa from Geoscience Australia told the ABC (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-28/why-it-matters-that-australias-coordinates-are-moving/7668014). That's put the local coordinates out of whack by about 1.5 metres (4.9 feet).
SEE ALSO: Amount of Australians listing The Force as their religion is unnervingly large (http://mashable.com/2016/08/01/australia-census-jedi/)
Being exact about where the country is at matters, **w more than ever. As Jaksa pointed out, there are myriad devices and tech**logies reliant on GPS, from Pokémon Go to auto-pilot car functions. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/01/australia-drifting-gps/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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