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Find address
from Latitude Longitude
Trace Latitude Longitude to an address
Find address from Latitude Longitude |
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This search helps you find an exact address, street, building,
house, parcel or land location from Latitude and Longitude.
Following is the precision of the address, street, building,
house, parcel or land location. The more places you have after
the decimal the more precise your location.
Latitudes and longitudes are coordinates used to identify a
specific location on a map. The latitude and longitude are
usually specified in degrees. For greater precision degrees are
divided into minutes and minutes are divided into seconds. There
are 60 seconds in 1 minute and 60 minutes in 1 degree. An example of a latitude specified in
this way is 14°21'32″ N (for greater precision, a decimal
fraction can be added to the seconds). An alternative
representation uses only degrees and minutes, where the seconds
are expressed as a decimal fraction of minutes: the above
example would be expressed as 14°21.317' N. Degrees can also be
expressed singularly, with both the minutes and seconds
incorporated as a decimal number and rounded as desired. This is
called decimal degree notation. A typical example to illustrate
decimal degree notation is: 14.23951° N. The north or south
suffix can also be noted by a negative sign for south with −90° for the South
Pole.
A typical sample to illustrate precision in decimal degree
notation would be as follows:
1 degree of latitude = 363,778.9 feet or 110,874.40 meters
0.100000 degree = 36377.89 feet or 11,087.44 meters
0.010000 degree = 3637.77 feet or 1,108.74 meters
0.001000 degree = 363.76 feet or 110.87 meters
0.000100 degree = 36.38 feet or 11.09 meters
0.000010 degree = 3.64 feet or 1.11 meters
0.000001 degree = 0.36 feet or 0.11 meters or 4.32 inches or 11
centimetersThe length of a degree of latitude is not
constant. This is due to the fact that the earth is not a
perfect sphere. The earth flattens slightly at the poles.
Therefore the length of a degree of latitude will increase as
you go farther from the equator and towards either of the poles.
For example:
Each degree of longitude equals 68.703 miles or 110.566 km (Equatorial)
Each degree of longitude equals 69.407 miles or 111.699 km (Poles)
Longitudes are lines that converge as you travel from the Equator to the poles.
Therefore the length of one degree of longitude decreases as one
gets closer to the poles. At the equator a degree of longitude
is 69.172 miles 111.321 kilometers and at the poles a longitude
has a length of zero. |
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What are latitudes and longitudes?
Technically latitude and longitude are defined as spherical
coordinates on the surface of the earth. The address of any
place on earth can be specified by a latitude and longitude.
What is Latitude?
Lines of Latitude are the horizontal lines shown running
east to west on maps. Technically, latitude is an angular
measurement in degrees (marked with °) ranging from 0° at the
equator (low latitude) to 90° at the poles (90° N for the North
Pole or 90° S for the South Pole; high latitude). The
complementary angle of a latitude is called the co-latitude. |
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What is longitude?
Longitudes are imaginary lines that are drawn from the north
pole to the south poles. Longitudes are also referred to as
meridians. Longitude is measured starting from an imaginary north-south line
called the Prime Meridian. The prime meridian is an arbitrary
line that runs through Greenwich, London in the UK at which
longitude is defined to be 0°. Longitudes specify how far east
or west of the Prime Meridian some location on earth is. Longitude
is measured using degrees, the same way an angle is. The Prime
Meridian is 0° (zero degrees), and the furthest away from the
prime meridian is +180°
eastward and −180° westward. The opposite of the Prime
Meridian, 180th meridian (at 180° longitude), is called the International Date Line.
The line running through Greenwich London and comprising of the
International date line forms a great circle that divides the Earth into the Eastern and
Western Hemispheres. The parallels of latitude are
defined by the rotational axis of the Earth (the poles being 90°
and the Equator 0°), while the Prime Meridian is arbitrary. By
international convention, the modern Prime Meridian is one
passing through Greenwich, London, United Kingdom, known as the
International Meridian or Greenwich Meridian |
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