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ModRana is a flexible GPS navigation system for mobile devices. This is the main upstream modRana source code repository - waiting for your pull requests & patches! :)
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Use some reasonable rounding when displaying POI coordinates #226

Open M4rtinK opened 6 years ago

M4rtinK commented 6 years ago

We likely don't need to show them to 14 decimal places. (BTW, this of course does not influence the precision of the stored coordinates in any way.)

M4rtinK commented 6 years ago

Some resources: https://gisjames.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/deciding-how-many-decimal-places-to-include-when-reporting-latitude-and-longitude/ https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/8650/measuring-accuracy-of-latitude-and-longitude

Looks like 7 decimal places should be more than enough (~10 cm accuracy).