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Map of Canada. Module:Location map/data/Canada is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on a Lambert conformal conic projection map of Canada. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Sign on the Trans-Canada Highway near Winnipeg, marking the longitude centre of Canada. The rural village of Taché, Mantioba, east of Winnipeg on the Trans-Canada Highway, has a sign at 96°48'35"W that proclaims it the longitudinal centre of Canada. [1] The sign was upgraded with the opening of Centre of Canada Park in 2017. [2]
In this case the latitude is 51.455558, and the longitude is -2.605047. The reverse is possible by entering the lat and long into the search bar, with a space between them. Copying the coordinates from the URL can be made easier with a Javascript-supporting browser, by adding any of the following bookmarklets (create a new bookmark with this ...
The Pythagorean theorem is used to calculate the distance between points in a plane. Even over short distances, the accuracy of geographic distance calculations which assume a flat Earth depend on the method by which the latitude and longitude coordinates have been projected onto the plane.
Longitude: from West to East this map definition covers 0.577 degrees. At an image width of 200 pixels, that is 0.0029 degrees per pixel. At an image width of 1000 pixels, that is 0.0006 degrees per pixel. Latitude: from North to South this map definition covers 0.3099 degrees. At an image height of 200 pixels, that is 0.0015 degrees per pixel.
Informally, specifying a geographic location usually means giving the location's latitude and longitude. The numerical values for latitude and longitude can occur in a number of different units or formats: [2] sexagesimal degree: degrees, minutes, and seconds : 40° 26′ 46″ N 79° 58′ 56″ W
It is an astronomical method of calculating the longitude at which a position line, drawn from a sight by sextant of any celestial body, crosses the observer's assumed latitude. [1] In order to calculate the position line, the time of the sight must be known so that the celestial position i.e. the Greenwich Hour Angle (Celestial Longitude ...
Thus longitude at sea could only be estimated from dead reckoning (DR) – by using estimations of speed and course from a known starting position – at a time when longitude determination on land was becoming increasingly accurate. To compensate for longitude uncertainty, navigators have sometimes relied on their accurate knowledge of latitude.