| ▲ | moomoo11 5 days ago | |
Silly question but how does this affect mapping software? Or is the movement insignificant that it doesn’t matter | ||
| ▲ | nullhole 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
It's tracked by some national agencies, for example NZ has a deformation model. This link has a summary & links to some lectures about the deformation model: https://www.linz.govt.nz/guidance/geodetic-system/coordinate... Metres of movement would definitely be significant for a lot of mapping use cases. This is why the time component of any coordinate measurement is important, both due to earthquakes as well as plain old plate motion. | ||
| ▲ | praptak 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
It does but it's just one of many factors that make maps diverge from the ground truth: https://nautil.us/what-happens-to-google-maps-when-tectonic-... | ||