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Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by m3at on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:29AM (#26538129)
Strikingly beautiful!

It's hard to get a sense of the scale of the scene, anyone happen to know how far away the webcam is from the peak?

Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by asgeir on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:37AM (#26538176)
Looks to be about half a kilometer. The webcam looks to be at about 63.89045405043735, -22.279054215941507 and the main crater is at about 63.88921695342744, -22.269097856211175

The main crater is only a few tens of meters tall.

Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by jstanley on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:58AM (#26538313)
About?! The 14th decimal place of latitude is worth ~0.15mm!
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by adwn on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:05AM (#26538353)
Although that might have been tongue-in-cheek, the word "about" could refer to the accuracy of the position, not its precision.

Precision != accuracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision

Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by elcomet on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:21AM (#26538452)
But the number of digits should reflect the precision.
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by unhammer on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:59AM (#26538716)
When pointing at a map, the thickness of your digits should reflect precision.
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by airhead969 on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:02AM (#26540190)
How accurate are your digits?
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by airhead969 on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:01AM (#26540184)
Yes. If it's only 5 digits, it should be cut-off to reflect that. Accuracy needs an error estimate.
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by Moru on Monday March 22, 2021 @01:58PM (#26544281)
It's hard if you don't know the precision needed to get to the position you want, easier to just copy/paste and be done with it. How many knows how far 0.001 deg is at a specific location on the globe?
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by asgeir on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:22AM (#26538460)
I find it hard to estimate the position from the top-down view compared to when I was there, and I just copy-pasted the coordinates from Google Maps
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by airhead969 on Monday March 22, 2021 @08:59AM (#26540163)
The smallest possible resolution of GPS in the horizontal is 10mm (6-7 digits) with local differential corrections.

In general, 4-5 digits is the precision to expect.

Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by jstanley on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:53AM (#26541677)
Hm, then I think my calculation that the 14th digit is worth 0.15mm must be wildly incorrect.

For a 40km earth circumference, I worked out 10^-14 * 360 * 4*10^7 = 0.00014 metres.

Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by schoen on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:25PM (#26550711)
I think you want to divide by 360 instead of multiplying by 360 - when you divide by 360, you should get the linear distance represented by one degree of latitude or longitude.
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by granra on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:36AM (#26538168)
Not too far I think. This eruption is apparently competing with one other eruption on being the smallest eruption on record in Iceland.

Source: am Icelandic and read it on the news.

Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by hr2016 on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:37AM (#26538177)
The camera is located on Fagradalsfjall and the eruption is in Geldingadalir. The exact location of the camera I do not know, but its somewhere in the ~1km range.
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by Tepix on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:35AM (#26538163)
I see a few rocks in the foreground and a lot of fog. Fagradalsfjall is nowhere in sight as of 08:34 UTC.

Edit: Now 20 minutes later the white smoke is gone. Stunning!

Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by input_sh on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:38AM (#26538180)
Ashes and sunlight are obstructing the current view, if you go a little back in the stream, you'll see what's happening.
Re:Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] by Tepix on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:58AM (#26538312)
Fagradalsfjall is only 385m high.