Unfortunate this is the least significant digit so it appears in every
single area of the country.
2011/7/13 Pádraig Brady <P at draigbrady.com>:
> On 13/07/11 12:32, Ian Spillane wrote:
>> A question for the brainboxes:
>>>> A present the location code uses three-and-a-half digits for each of
>> longitude and latitude. Half a digit of base 28 is actually two base 5
>> digits, 5*5=25, which wastes 3 numbers and thus reduces potential
>> accuracy by a third.
>> I wonder instead of dividing both lat and long by 5,
> could you divide lat into 6, and truncate the highest and lowest
> values into the 28 char set, as you'd just be losing
> resolution in the sea then anyway?
>> cheers,
> Pádraig.
>
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