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From: | Kai Harrekilde-Petersen |
Subject: | Re: ✘ Release blockers? |
Date: | Tue, 31 Dec 2019 22:56:56 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.2 |
On 31-12-2019 21:43, Gary E. Miller wrote:
Yo Greg! On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 15:22:35 -0500 Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:I think it's a bug that xgps default to imperial units.Unless you live in the USA. This can be changed with the (undocumented) XGPSOPTS environment variable. I guess it could be a build time option.
Considering that there are about 195 countries in the world (193 part of the UN, a few observers etc), not living in the USA is a reasonable assumption. The world population clock say we are 7.8 billion people on planet Earth, with about 0.33B of those living in the USA.
Recently I saw someone in a normal context post GPS error estimates in feet (as part of a "why doesn't my phone nav work" discussion) and I was really surprised that anybody would do that for a moment.They must not live in the USA.
Most people aren't. See above.That the US is still using British Imperial Units is comical, considering that you guys actually fought a war to get out of the British Empire.
Happy New Years, everyone. Kai
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