Mac OS 10.4.8 - the rounding error
31.10.2006 19:37 | Technology | Permalink
MacOS X 10.4.8 seems to introduce a bug where saving floating point coordinates into a document will round the values. Well, rounding could be a good thing, but in this case coordinates are rounded right after the 4-th digit resulting in a possible 50m difference to the original location.
So after the unwanted rounding has occurred, all coordinates are pinned to the fixed grid of 4 decimal digits, creating interesting "track-jaggies".
Release 119 has fixed this by storing coordinates in double precision. If you can, please reopen a backup saved with a version prior to your update to 10.4.8.
Sorry, it really wasn't my fault (this time)
So after the unwanted rounding has occurred, all coordinates are pinned to the fixed grid of 4 decimal digits, creating interesting "track-jaggies".
Release 119 has fixed this by storing coordinates in double precision. If you can, please reopen a backup saved with a version prior to your update to 10.4.8.
Sorry, it really wasn't my fault (this time)
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