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Re:Finding the longest straight line you could sail without ... by digikata on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:08PM (#16968310)
Well a good starting approximation might be to take a WGS ellipsoid model of the earth and see if their existing coordinates forms something close to a cube.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System

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