• Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    3 days ago

    You are not getting a 3 dimensional location. That’s why GPS coordinates only exist on 2 planes. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

    Coordinates on a sphere is a 3 dimensional location. The earth isn’t flat.

    Edit: Please education yourself before you’re so confident in your own bullshit answer. https://gisgeography.com/trilateration-triangulation-gps/ and https://www.gps.gov/multimedia/tutorials/trilateration/

    Satellites broadcast a sphere, not a circle. And that sphere doesn’t land on the earth as a perfect circle for relatively obvious reason… since the ground isn’t perfect flat, nor is the earth perfectly spheroid.

    • Ulrich@feddit.org
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      3 days ago

      The earth isn’t flat.

      So which coordinate accounts for elevation? Latitude or Longitude?