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And then think about tectonic plate motions and that any point affixed to a continent is moving with regards to an ECEF coordinate system.

Ugh, I get flashbacks to one of my astronomy intro courses and having to memorize conversion formulas between horizontal (azimuth/altitude), equatorial (RA or hour angle/declination), and ecliptic (ecliptic long/lat) coordinate systems. Fun times.

While in uni I once ended up having to chase an autonomous boat as it decided to head out too deep waters and do a hoky-poky dance because one guy wrote controls code in NED coordinate convention and another one issued commands in ENU convention.

Write a blog post if you can. Chasing a boat on the water because the program used the wrong coordinate system - sounds like an amusing debugging story.

No kidding, this article is someone complaining about easy mode...