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Most Complete Topographical Map of Earth Complete
An anonymous reader writes "Kudos to NASA and the Japanese trade ministry for mapping 99% of the Earth's surface, surpassing their previous effort, with which the new data will be amalgamated. Apparently, the data will be free to download and use."
That's the Cobra secret base.
It's the hole at the North Pole that leads to the center of the Earth.
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It's the area around the topographical mapping equipment building. if they point the equipment at itself, it creates a paradox and the universe implodes.
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As noted by some. This also has been the most detailed fail.
This error message sums it up pretty well:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e4d'
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[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Too many client tasks.
Acess?! Really?!
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The other 1% is what geographers call the "edge"; the area at which the two sides of the flat earth meet. Mapping both sides of a flat object is easy. Unfortunately mapping the edge is much harder. Just be glad the Earth is flat, not round. Otherwise, there'd be no accurate way to project it onto a piece of paper.
How do these folks break even if the data will be free to download and use? A small nominal charge for use or download would not hurt for sure...or would it?
What are you, some kind of RIAA mobster?
1% would be 5.100.720 km, which is 2258x2258 km
It could be 40075.02km long and 127.28km wide.
In fact I'm guessing its the part of the earth covered by the big red stripe that marks the equator.
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Some parts of the world use decimals where us Americans use commas. and vice versa,
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