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Sharlinlast Wednesday at 10:38 AM1 replyview on HN

In short, you can treat the local geometry as Euclidean.


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bregmalast Wednesday at 11:02 AM

Or, to put it simply, the shape of the Earth can be considered flat for local mapping purposes.

If grid north and true north are the same everywhere, it would be proof the entire Earth is flat.

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