Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet to the West

Re:Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet to the West by paulsowden on Monday March 08, 2010 @11:18PM (#1177456)

I wonder what happens to all the lat/lon locations fetched using GPS and the such on flickr, etc, they're all 10 feet off now..

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Re:Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet to the West by jac_no_k on Monday March 08, 2010 @11:32PM (#1177490)

Or navigation systems using GPS? 10 feet is enough to confuse navigation systems used in automobiles. I wonder how quickly the map makers will update their databases and turn around sell the update?

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Re:Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet to the West by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @07:35AM (#1178065)

Civilian GPS isn't that accurate at the best of times and needs to be robust for times when it can't get clear views of the sky. A 10ft shift shouldn't trip it up.

Wikipedia says 50-15 feet of inaccuracy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Error...

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