Saturday, September 6, 2014

How precise is one degree of longitude or latitude?

How precise is one degree of longitude or latitude?


For those of us with no real navigation experience, encountering longitude and latitude coordinates is usually the result of some hiccup using Google Maps. 40.722272, -73.994194? What? Where the heck is that? Why are there so many digits after the decimal?


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