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Australia's current position is based on maps from 1994, on which most major navigation systems rely, Reuters says. What's worse, Australia continues to move north at about 3 inches a year ...

Tectonic activity is shifting Australia northward, messing with GPS-run technology and pushing scientists to update the continent's coordinates. Produced by Noah Friedman. Original reporting by ...

Australia is to shift its longitude and latitude to address a gap between local co-ordinates and those from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Local co-ordinates, used to produce maps and ...

While that might not sound like much, over time it's significantly thrown off Australia's latitude and longitude coordinates, causing accuracy issues for GPS technologies. An Australian government ...

because Australia's tectonic plate is moving, its latitude and longitude coordinates are now a bit off. In fact they're out by more than 1.5 metres. Take the Opera House for example - maps and GPS ...

and the one Australia has used to date is called the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994, or GDA94. The coordinates of fixed features on our maps, such as roads, buildings, property boundaries and ...