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This is a nice little illustration of how hard it is, and how far you can end up going, when you try to solve what seem like simple problems properly. I use OSM because i just want to know where my nearest postbox is; under the hood it's modelling plate tectonics!


The post is saying that it isn't modeling plate tectonics.


It's modelling their movements, but not their distortion


The imagery sources all use "locked" datums that ignore the movement, so the OSM data derived from the imagery is also ignoring the movement.


Well, that’s not what the article says. Some of their image sources are using plate-locked frames of reference, and some are using global frames of reference. It’s actually inconsistent.




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