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Crazie Daizee @craziedaizee.bsky.social

ah the "other" coastline paradox ;-) but seriously, the real one still melts my mind, the smaller measurement you use, the longer a coastline will be and there is technically no limit (this is also why your Garmin is always wrong, GPS has the same problem) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastli...

aug 26, 2025, 6:22 pm • 4 0

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roelschroeven.bsky.social @roelschroeven.bsky.social

I'm not sure I follow here. Can you explain how GPS suffers from the coastline paradox?

aug 26, 2025, 6:46 pm • 3 0 • view
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Mark Beveridge @mbeveridge.bsky.social

Maybe because the precision/granularity of GPS is only ~5metres (and worse under tree canopy, etc)? So GPS track will assume a local straight line (when device reconnects to satellite), even though you might have walked further

aug 27, 2025, 5:28 pm • 0 0 • view