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  2. Location - Wikipedia

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    A relative location, or situation, is described as a displacement from another site. In simpler terms, relative location is where something is compared to another. Relative location is widely used for travelling and shipping because it helps people know where a place is compared to another.

  3. Five themes of geography - Wikipedia

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    Relative location, a location as described by where it is compared to something else. For example, Albany, New York is roughly 140 miles north of New York City. Every site on Earth has a unique absolute location, which can be identified with a reference grid (such as latitude and longitude).

  4. Address geocoding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_geocoding

    Relative input data are the textual descriptions of a location which, alone, cannot specify a spatial representation of that location, but is geographically dependent and geographically relative on other locations. An example of a relative geocode is "Across the street from the Empire State Building." The location being sought cannot be ...

  5. Geopositioning - Wikipedia

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    Principles of geolocation using GPS. Geopositioning is the process of determining or estimating the geographic position of an object or a person. [1] Geopositioning yields a set of geographic coordinates (such as latitude and longitude) in a given map datum.

  6. Position (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a position or position vector, also known as location vector or radius vector, is a Euclidean vector that represents a point P in space. Its length represents the distance in relation to an arbitrary reference origin O , and its direction represents the angular orientation with respect to given reference axes.

  7. Position sensor - Wikipedia

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    A position sensor is a sensor that detects an object's position. A position sensor may indicate the absolute position of the object (its location) or its relative position (displacement) in terms of linear travel, rotational angle or three-dimensional space.

  8. Principle of locality - Wikipedia

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    The relative positions of our few, easily distinguishable planets (for example) can be seen directly: understanding and measuring their relative location poses only ...

  9. Bearing (navigation) - Wikipedia

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    Relative bearing refers to the angle between the craft's forward direction and the location of another object. For example, an object relative bearing of 0 degrees would be immediately in front; an object relative bearing 180 degrees would be behind. [2] Bearings can be measured in mils, points, or degrees.