Thanks. Of course, you are quite right. From my perspective, the important factor is the high level of global-level mass-market saturation this protocol is achieving. This seems significant in the broad context of “interoperability issues” that will probably continue to arise at all levels of the global economy – not only within specialized industries, but at every point “in the grid” – or, as Cisco used to call it – “the human network” – now called “the internet of everything” -- where cooperation or shared understanding becomes important.
Today, with a high-speed Cox cable connection, I have an absolutely amazing “mapping” capability at my immediate convenience. It’s really quite stunning. And many other integrative systems are emerging – like “Slack” – another elegant and rapidly growing framework, developing mass-market client-oriented integration around something like 80 significant internet applications – like “Drop Box” or “GitHub”.
https://slack.com/integrations
Or http://www.cisco.com/
Bruce Schuman, Santa Barbara CA USA
http://networknation.net/vision.cfm
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Dear Bruce,
If you are saying that Google map coordinates are not globally consistent – but are culturally relative, and change from country to country or region to region – that would come as a surprise to me – but one I need to hear about.
[MW>] I’m sure Google are using WGS84. But actually Google don’t rule the world, so you can’t assume that everyone else (and especially every other map) is using it too.
Regards
Matthew West
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