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How I sensed a bug while not seeing any, and what came of it.
Dear reader,
Today I found a place on our website where we display the size of a recreational area in square kilometers.
199 km²
I cannot fully explain what happened next, but I had a hunch something must be wrong with this feature.
Narrator: there was.
A little story about a very common mistake when working with Earth coordinates around 180th meridiane.
Several days ago, I got a bug request: no airports around a certain hotel were being displayed.
There certainly were some airports relatively close to the hotel, and judging by all conditions they should have been there. This hotel’s page could boast with very good air connections, but it did not.
Like a proper seasoned Geo-expert should do in this case, first thing I did – was checking the location of the hotel.
Of course, it was located on Fiji.
The problem immediately became absolutely clear to me.
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