Feb. 10, 2017
4:52 p.m.
On 02/10/2017 08:31 AM, J Andrew Lipscomb wrote:
are the coordinates shown in the zone.tab file stable enough to use as IDs?
I doubt it, as they are updated from time to time, and I would guess they're less stable than the English names. Most likely some of those coordinates are typos that should be fixable. Most of those coordinates came from Shanks, who (I suspect) rounded them to fit whatever crude approximation his old database format was using. Plus, people argue even about the coordinates! These can be just as political as the name.