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Going Back to Basics
This article is intended to explain some basics of Geospatial, which many will get confused about and some smart ways to ensure you won’t get confused again. This article was originally published in arkives.in, by the same author, read the blog for a better reader experience as tables in the medium are not properly visible.
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Preface
Recently, I was interacting with a junior and saw a print pinned to the desk board with plotted coordinates and axes. Out of curiosity, I asked what it was and the reply came that the person is working on some scripts to plot maps and that the pinned plot helps in identifying the canvas quickly. Somehow the discussion landed up in latitude and longitude, and thus started the confusion, which is what!
When you climb up the career ladder in your career, you often become an expert in complicated things, while you tend to forget or confuse some of the basics. You may forget simple (a+b)2 while innovating on the complex climate forecast models, and that’s quite natural to some extent; machines and software are the reason for this. For example, calculators are the reason for many of our reduced abilities in mental calculations; similarly, with the popularity of mobile phones, nobody remembers many phone numbers.
