Australia's coordinates are out by more than 1.5 metres ... cars — if you're 1.5m out then you're in another lane. "So the map information those systems use need to be coincident with the ...

Either all the maps in the world are wrong or Australia isn’t as Down Under ... resulting in its latitude and longitude coordinates being changed four times in the past 50 years.

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 ...

Here’s Chris Foxx, reporting for BBC News: “If you want to start using driverless cars, accurate map information ... problems.” Australia, like most regions, has its own coordinate system ...

Professor Chris Rizos receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information. Associate Professor Donald Grant has received funding for a ...

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 ...

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'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 ...

A mismatch between the coordinates of the two ... to start using driverless cars, accurate map information is fundamental. “We have tractors in Australia starting to go around farms without ...

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 ...