Australia won't stop drifting so it needs to fix its GPS coordinates
 

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. That's put the local coordinates out of whack by about 1.5 metres (4.9 feet).

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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...

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