Exocet (and/or successors) for 1960s concrete monstrosities – not just in Birmingham and UK but former Soviet régimes?

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From: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Abbott
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I was surprised today by an email request  which quoted latitude and longitude co-ordinates to 15 decimal places of a degree, presumably obtained from a website. These would appear to locate a precise spot at the nanometre or even picometre level. Can anyone suggest an application which would require this degree of accuracy? Birmingham New Street station doesn't!

Richard Abbott

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