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Argleton Tests the Geospatial Errors That Look Correct

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A correctness suite probes geospatial systems for silent failures that produce plausible results instead of crashes.

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Argleton tests five systems against traps involving raster encoding, units, nodata, coordinate systems, and other geospatial edge cases. Its central example is wonderfully unsettling: a GeoTIFF reader returns an ordinary-looking elevation of 36.09375 when the constructed answer is 1093.0, with no warning or exception.

A correctness suite probes geospatial systems for silent failures that produce plausible results instead of crashes.

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