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  2. World Geodetic System - Wikipedia

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    The WGS 84 datum surface is an oblate spheroid with equatorial radius a = 6 378 137 m at the equator and flattening f = 1 ⁄ 298.257 223 563. The refined value of the WGS 84 gravitational constant (mass of Earth's atmosphere included) is GM = 3.986 004 418 × 10 14 m 3 /s 2. The angular velocity of the Earth is defined to be ω = 72.921 15 × ...

  3. List of online map services - Wikipedia

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    GeoInfo Map [1] – a geospatial information service provided by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government. Common Spatial Data Infrastructure Portal aka CSDI – a portal providing information infrastructure to share spatial data in Hong Kong for smart city development.

  4. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Cylindrical equal-area projection with standard parallels at 30°N/S and an aspect ratio of (3/4)π ≈ 2.356. 2002 Hobo–Dyer: Cylindrical Equal-area Mick Dyer: Cylindrical equal-area projection with standard parallels at 37.5°N/S and an aspect ratio of 1.977. Similar are Trystan Edwards with standard parallels at 37.4° and Smyth equal ...

  5. Geographic coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude. [1] It is the simplest, oldest and most widely used type of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and forms the basis for most others.

  6. Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    By using narrow zones of 6° of longitude (up to 668 km) in width, and reducing the scale factor along the central meridian to 0.9996 (a reduction of 1:2500), the amount of distortion is held below 1 part in 1,000 inside each zone. Distortion of scale increases to 1.0010 at the zone boundaries along the equator.

  7. Coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    A point in the plane may be represented in homogeneous coordinates by a triple (x, y, z) where x/z and y/z are the Cartesian coordinates of the point. [10] This introduces an "extra" coordinate since only two are needed to specify a point on the plane, but this system is useful in that it represents any point on the projective plane without the ...

  8. Horizontal coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    [5] The following are two independent horizontal angular coordinates: Altitude (alt. or altitude angle [b]), sometimes referred to as elevation (el. or elevation angle [c]) or apparent height, is the angle between the object and the observer's local horizon. For visible objects, it is an angle between 0° and 90°. [d]

  9. Geographic center of the United States - Wikipedia

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    NE 1/4 – SE 1/4 – S32 – T2S – R11W Located by L.T. Hagadorn of Paulette & Wilson – Engineers and L.A. Beardslee – County Engineer. From data furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Sponsored by Lebanon Hub Club. Lebanon, Kansas. April 25, 1940 An American flag usually flies atop a pole placed on the monument.