Paul Prins

This has to be one of the most awesome notes that my wife has left for me yet.

For the record, I have been awake for nearly 6 hours and haven’t seen the lady bug yet. Must be an extra sneaky one.

Kind of a geeky post, but I just spent some time trying to figure out what the max number of decimal values a Latitude or Longitude value can have for the sake of storing information in a database.

Here is what I found. Most places I found decimal values for Lat/Long only used up to 8 decimal places (depending on rounding), yet the most I found was 16 values to the right of the decimal place.

For those out there using mySQL and wanting to store these values I’m using the type: decimal(20,16) and while it will be overkill for some values, it should accommodate the extreme circumstances that arise.

It has come to my attented after being at Wisconsin Dells the beginning of last week that not everyone shrills and screams on water slides. While I see this as tragic, I also don’t believe that my doing so affects my masculinity in the slightest bit.

Scream away my friends, scream away. If the life guards laugh it is only because they are jealous of your fun.