Re: Tutorial: Query the Apple database with Python for your access point BSSID
Chris <[email protected]>
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Jeff Liebermann <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't determine if either company has a reason to have a longer > Lat/Long. However, notice the number of digits in the Lat, which are > mostly zeros, except for the last digit: > Latitude: 32.459438320000004 > I don't know what they're doing, but it looks like they're using the > Latitude to store some kind of data or ID. There are several other > entries in the data that show a similar pattern of 8 places to the > right of the decimal point for useful data followed by 6 zeros and 1 > numeric digit. These are from loss of precision in the storing of floating-point numbers in python. They aren't real. The source data will not include all the zeros.