BREAKING NEWS: NORWAY WAS PLATINUM (Patreon)

I can't believe it's taken me this long to figure this out, and I won't go into the ins and outs of why, but basically the line that you saw on Garmin BaseCamp (the straight yellow line that was 10 metres south of the "walked" line) IS NOT a straight line around the surface of the Earth. I kind of knew this already having read all the emails that people sent in, but upon learning yesterday that straight lines drawn on Google Earth ARE in fact completely accurate (I was under a different impression) I decided to export my "walked" line from Garmin BaseCamp and import it into Google Earth. That's when something beautiful graced my eyes. The blue walked line, perfectly hugged the red straight line, so much so that I immediately began to measure the biggest deviations to see if they were over 25m. To my delight, not one of them were. It all makes sense now. I DID do a platinum run and I'm absolutely over the moon, partly because I've done a platinum run in Norway, but also because I've figured out what the problem was. A straight line drawn in the 2D Mercator map projection in Garmin Basecamp is not a straight line on the earth's surface, but when uploaded to the Garmin GPS System, it is. The reason I didn't identify this is because the imagery on Garmin Basecamp is that shit that you can't make anything out. Now that I know this however, I need not worry about this ever happening again. I do however plan on upgrading my GPS system for more accuracy.YouTube video incoming this weekend. Just thought I'd share it with you guys first.P.S. Childhood Mission with Greg (recreation) Part 1 will be available on Sunday on the $4 tier. Yes that's right, it's going from $6 to $4, so hang fire until Sunday if you were going to make the leap and don't want to pay $6.