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Latitude is usually given first. But it doesn't really matter, as long as you clearly specify
which is which when you list the numbers.
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How many miles are in one degree?
One degree of latitude, and one degree of longitude along the equator only, is equivalent to roughly 69.1 miles (111 km). One degree of latitude, and of longitude on the equator only, is also equal to about 60 nautical miles.
How many meter in a toposheet make one degree?
That would depend if you are looking at degrees of latitude or degrees of longitude. One degree of longitude represents less distance nearer the poles than it does at the equator. One degree of latitude represents the same distance anywhere on earth.
How would knowing your latitude and longitude help you find your way at sea?
Knowing where you are is only one part of getting to where you're going. -- If you know your own latitude and longitude, AND the latitude and longitude of where you want to go, then you can calculate the DIRECTION you need to sail in order to get there by the shortest route, and exactly how far that is. -- If you only know your own latitude and longitude and nothing else, then perhaps the most useful application of that knowledge takes place when you need to radio the Coast Guard and ask them to come out and rescue you. If you can give them that information, then they don't have to hunt for you when they get to the general area.
Has a parallel lines of latitude and longitude?
Latitude and longtitide are used to indicated the fixed location of a point or sphere in relation to two of that sphere's opposite poles and one line joining them. Here on Earth the two poles are the North Pole and the South Pole, and the line joining them is the one which runs through London, England. Latitide and longitude do not apply to a planet, as it orbits the Sun and is always moving.
What is a map that shows longitude and latitude called?
A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on the Earth to be specified by a set of numbers. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represent vertical position, and twoor three of the numbers represent horizontal position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation.
The degree of longitude is always listed?
Second, after latitude.
What is the latitude and longitude of Roanoke island?
this was my question first and no one answered it
Do you look at the lines of latitude or the lines of longitude first when you are finding the coordinates?
It does not matter whether you look at the lines of latitude or longitude first. Usually coordinates are written latitude, then longitude. Good luck!
Is California longitude or latitude?
Every point on Earth has both a longitude and a latitude. And if someone gives you a longitude and a latitude, you can use them to find exactly one point on Earth.
What countries or states have the same latitude and longitude of Sarasota Florida?
Once you have a latitude and a longitude, you've got the location pinned downto a single point on the earth's surface. Other places can have the same latitude,and still other places can have the same longitude, but no other point anywhereon the planet can have the same latitude and the same longitude as the first one.
What is the latitude and longitude of a seacoast?
It doesn't work that way. You could tell the latitude and longitude of one spot but not seacoast in general.
Why the latitude is N and the longitude is W?
The latitude is either N or S, and the longitude is either E or W. The system was made like that so that any point anywhere on Earth can be exactly located with one latitude and one longitude.
What is the latitude and longitude of Baldwin Park?
Which one?
Why is latitude always given first?
It isn't. The coordinates of a point may be given in either order, as long as it's clearly identified which one is latitude and which one is longitude.
Can you use the distance formula to find the distance between two points on a map?
yes you can. It will represent longitude and latitude. Take the longitude and latitude from the first point and from the second one place the values in the formula you get the distance.
What is the latitude and longitude of the tropical rain forest?
There are manytropical rainforests, and they each take up more than one latitude and longitude.
Which is the Latitude and which the Longitude?
The one that measures the angle from the equator and is tagged 'north' or 'south' is the latitude. The one that measures the angle from the Prime Meridian and is tagged 'east' or 'west' is the longitude.
