[xkcd] Latitude and Longitude

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NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).

🔗 xkcd.com/3273 · #3273

Why it resonates: Every developer who's ever shipped a geo-feature knows the silent terror of coordinate system mismatches — where "I left clear instructions" meets "but which version of the standard did you mean?"

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