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Originally Posted by Pablo
The basic problem is that a "nautical mile' (by definition) is an angular measure: the length of a line spanning one minute of one degree of arc on the earth's surface. This would be great if the earth were a perfect sphere, but it's not: it is an "oblate spheroid" so the "real" length is shorter at the North and South Pole than it is at the equator.
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The problem is the same for the 'metre'. It's the 1/10,000,000 of a quarter of a meridian.
I agree with Papa Charlie. It would be a usefull mod. It'd be more logical.
but the conversion NM/Km is quite easy to do
however, there are excellent conversion charts in nots of modpacks.