{"id":100200,"date":"2016-07-29T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100200"},"modified":"2016-07-29T16:11:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:11:35","slug":"the-ridiculous-reason-all-of-australias-online-maps-are-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/100200-the-ridiculous-reason-all-of-australias-online-maps-are-wrong","title":{"rendered":"The ridiculous reason all of Australia’s online maps are wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia is officially shifting its longitude and latitude to fix a discrepancy with global satellite navigation systems, reports CNET<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This announcement comes from Geoscience Australia<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0which\u00a0plans to update the country’s national coordinate system to bring it in line with international data.<\/p>\n

The reason Australia is slightly out of whack with global systems is that the country moves about 7 centimetres (2.75 inches) per year due to the shifting of tectonic plates.<\/p>\n

Since 1994, when the data was last recorded, that’s added up to a misalignment of about a metre and a half.<\/p>\n

While that might not seem like much, various new technology requires location data to be pinpoint accurate. Self-driving cars<\/a>, for example, must have infinitesimally precise location data to avoid accidents. Drones used for package delivery and driverless farming vehicles also require spot-on information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a result, Australia is changing from “down-under”, to “down-under and across-a-bit”.<\/p>\n

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Australia is changing from down under to down under and across a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":100206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[31,12091,20910,4567,14302,20912,20908],"class_list":["post-100200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-active","tag-australia","tag-earth","tag-funny","tag-maps","tag-moving","tag-ridiculous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100204,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100200\/revisions\/100204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}