Latitude and longitude coordinates to be adjusted Australia...

Latitude and longitude coordinates to be adjusted
Australia slipped on the world map
07.30.2016, 15:21 | AFP

Australia moves north. (Source: NASA / Robert Simmon and Reto Stöckli / dpa)
Each year the Australian continent moved a few centimeters to the north.
This has implications for global navigation systems. To be with these back into
harmony, Australia is its latitude and longitude revise it.
At present the information to more than one meter are imprecise, as the authority
for Geosciences said. Each year, the continent is moving due to normal tectonic
movements around seven inches in the north - which will now be included in the
geographic coordinates at last.
Impact on new technologies
Smartphones were inaccurate at the moment up to a deviation of five to ten meters,
said Dan Jaksa of the Geosciences authority the broadcaster ABC. This margin should
be reduced, which is extremely important for new technologies such as driverless
cars but also remotely operated vehicles in the agricultural and mining sectors.
Most recently, the Australian coordinate system Geocentric date of Australia,
1994 updated. Without corrections, it would be different according to experts, by
2020, an average of 1.80 meters from the actual circumstances. The new data will
be available from January 1, 2017th.


Because of the implications on remotely operated minimg machines I'm afraid they
could miss the right spot, don't You?