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Originally Posted by Island-Ho
Ever wonder how your little car GPS navigator finds the exact house address you are looking for? Certainly it does NOT contain coordinates for every house in the country. With standardized number spacing it can simply measure from a known intersection and arrive pretty close to the house number you are looking for. (assuming of course the numbers are on a standard spacing, which of course many are not!)  |
Yup...I live at #40.....GPS gets me to my driveway when I put in 84.