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  2. World Meteorological Organization squares - Wikipedia

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    The second digit (x0xx through x8xx) indicates the number of tens of degrees latitude (north in global quadrants 1 and 7, south in global quadrants 3 and 5) of the 'minimum' square boundary (nearest to the Equator), i.e. a cell extending between 10°N and 20°N (or 10°S and 20°S) has this digit = 1, a cell extending between 20°N and 30°N ...

  3. Decimal degrees - Wikipedia

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    The precision of the latitude part does not increase so much, more strictly however, a meridian arc length per 1 second depends on the latitude at the point in question. The discrepancy of 1 second meridian arc length between equator and pole is about 0.3 metres (1 ft 0 in) because the earth is an oblate spheroid .

  4. Wikipedia : WikiProject Geographical coordinates

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    To add to the top of an article, use {{}}, {{Coord|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|W|display=title}} These coordinates are in degrees, minutes, and seconds of arc. "title" means that the coordinates will be displayed next to the article's title at the top of the page (in desktop view only; title coordinates do not display in mobile view) and before any other text or images.

  5. Geographic coordinate conversion - Wikipedia

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    A fourteen-parameter Helmert transform, with linear time dependence for each parameter, [19]: 131-133 can be used to capture the time evolution of geographic coordinates dues to geomorphic processes, such as continental drift [20] and earthquakes. [21]

  6. Geographical distance - Wikipedia

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    The square root appearing above can be eliminated for such applications as ordering locations by distance in a database query. On the other hand, some methods for computing nearest neighbors, such as the vantage-point tree , require that the distance metric obey the triangle inequality , in which case the square root must be retained.

  7. History of longitude - Wikipedia

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    (Absolute here refers to a time that is the same for an observer anywhere on Earth.) Each hour of difference of local time corresponds to a 15 degrees change of longitude (360 degrees divided by 24 hours). A Transit Instrument from 1793. Local noon is defined as the time at which the Sun is at the highest point in the sky.

  8. Marsden square - Wikipedia

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    Marsden square mapping or Marsden squares is a system that divides a world map with latitude-longitude gridlines (e.g. plate carrée projection, Mercator or other) between 80°N and 70°S latitudes (or 90°N and 80°S) into grid cells of 10° latitude by 10° longitude, each with a geocode, a unique numeric identifier.

  9. Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    The maximum "northing" value is about 9 300 000 meters at latitude 84 degrees North, the north end of the UTM zones. The southern hemisphere's northing at the equator is set at 10 000 000 meters. Northings decrease southward from these 10 000 000 meters to about 1 100 000 meters at 80 degrees South, the south end of the UTM zones. Therefore, no ...