Even RouaultSep 26, 2024
It has been ages since the last time I blogged. Here it is "Those concepts in the geospatial field that have cost us millions of $$$":
https://erouault.blogspot.com/2024/09/those-concepts-in-geospatial-field-that.html
Those concepts in the geospatial field that have cost us millions of $$$

Every domain has its baggage of concepts, which at first sight don't appear to be that terrible, but which are in practice. Let's start with...

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@EvenRouault i wonder how much fossil fuel is burned to store all those 15 decimal precision geojsons and other file formats that come like that as default...
Sep 27, 2024 at 5:28amWeb
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@hareldan There's actually a GDAL RFC for that (https://gdal.org/en/latest/development/rfc/rfc99_geometry_coordinate_precision.html). It just needs to be used...
RFC 99: Geometry coordinate precision — GDAL documentation

Show threadMatija NalisOct 4, 2024
@hareldan
re: "store all those 15 decimal precision geojsons" obXKCD: https://xkcd.com/2170/
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Coordinate Precision

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