I've clearly spent too much time working with protocols and data, a #hamradio "emergency form" which duplicates the same data in multiple formats (GPS, MGRS, what3words, physical address) for sending over a 300bps or 1200bps channel still bugs me. #datascience
@ai6yr Does it actually duplicate anything, though? I couldn't identify which form this is just from your screenshot, so I can't be sure what exactly it does -- but at least some of them convert coordinates. Check the XML (bleh) for what it actually sends.
The forms system is quite flexible, if almost entirely undocumented. Having a form that lets you enter coordinates in any reasonable format while only sending one is quite possible, people just don't do it as often as they should.
@AMS@R2AZE LOL so you can see, as someone who has spent months figuring out how to encode as much information into as few bits as possible (for a network protocol), you can see my OCD annoyance with that form, LOL.
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