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Earth ellipsoids

Earth ellipsoids are used to approximate the mean surface of the earth by a set of parameters that is called "geodetic datum" which describe the form an location of that ellipsoid in space. The standard geodetic datum used with GPS is called WGS84, which approximates the surface of the globe reasonably all over the world.

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