alt Hacker NewsIm inclined to agree, but unfortunately a huge amount of the existing data and processes in this space does not assume a spheroidal earth and come provided with a coordinate reference system. Ultimately there are also some domains where you got data that you explicitly don't want to interpret using spheroidal semantics, e.g. when working with a city plan - in which case the map _is_ the data model, and you definitely want the angles of a triangle to sum up to 180.
Similarly I see it as it an inevitable that you will deal with a problem related to these issues, then have a massive blocker if you aren't already familiar with the details because debugging requires more than a cursory understanding for hard problems. In the alternative, you don't know the problems exist and the code is broken. I don't think it's as simple as abstracting away the entire concept, which is what I would say is too high level like I mentioned above. I don't know the right answer here honestly, I think it will be disruptive when someone figures it out