Specific units of measurements that indentfy coordinates.?

Question

1.How r they (coordents) further broken down?
2.Give symbols for each.

Answer 1

1. it depends on the mapping system you are using.

You could use feet or meters as the coordinate system with a specific starting reference point.

Probably you are more interested in the Latitude and Longitude coordinates in which case the Latitudes start at the Equator as 0 (zero) degrees and go north (90 deg) or south (-90 deg) to the poles. Longitudes start at the Greenwich Meridian as 0 (zero) degrees and go west (-180 degrees) or east (180 degrees) to the international date line. Degrees are further broken down into minutes and then seconds.

Degrees looks like a very small o placed at the top right of a number; minutes = '; and seconds = ".

Answer 2

In geography, global coordinates are given for latitude and longitude. Lines of latitude run east / west, and lines of longitude run north south. The equator is zero degrees latitude. The north pole is 90 degrees north latitude, and the south pole is 90 degrees south latitude.

Zero degrees longitude is the line that runs through Greenwich England, and is known as The Prime Meridian. Lines of latitude to the east of this are East Longitude, and lines of longitude to the west are known as West Longitude. Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean is 180 degrees longitude, which is the same both east and west.

For example, my house, in Oxford, Michigan, USA is 42 48'17" N, 83 15' 41" W.

Coordinates are given in degrees. Typically in the GPS (global positioning system) we use decimal degrees. There is also the degree / minute / second system. There are sixty minutes in a degree, and sixty seconds in a minute.
The degree symbol is the little circle to the upper right of the number (just like temperature) minute is ' and second is ".

Answer 3

If you're asking about geography, seconds, minutes, and degrees are used to identify latitude and longitude.

If you're asking about math, the units are variable. Also consider whether you're using Cartesian or polar coordinates.

Answer 4

http://www.maptools.com/UsingLatLon/plotting.html

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=measuring+global+coordinates&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t500&x=wrt

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Degrees, Minutes and Seconds
Degrees and Decimal Minutes
Decimal - Degrees

Answer 5

Do your own homework, sweetie.