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Commonly used for French geopolitical maps. [10] 2002 Hao projection Pseudoconical Compromise Hao Xiaoguang Known as "plane terrestrial globe", [11] it was adopted by the People's Liberation Army for the official military maps and China’s State Oceanic Administration for polar expeditions. [12] [13] 1879 Wiechel projection: Pseudoazimuthal ...
Location of the claimed territory of Liberland in Europe Flag of Liberland Vít Jedlička, founder and president of Liberland. Liberland, also known as the Free Republic of Liberland, is a micronation promoted by Czech right-libertarian politician and activist Vít Jedlička, [1] [2] who began claiming in 2015 that an uninhabited stretch of floodplain on the Croatian bank of the Danube (known ...
Reverse geocoding is the process of converting a location as described by geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude) to a human-readable address or place name. It is the opposite of forward geocoding (often referred to as address geocoding or simply "geocoding"), hence the term reverse.
The Dyatlov Pass incident (Russian: гибель тургруппы Дятлова, romanized: gibel turgruppy Dyatlova, lit. 'Death of the Dyatlov Hiking Group') is an event in which nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959, under uncertain circumstances.
In addition, the ratio between the East (E) and North (N) coordinates of the reference point was also set to be sufficiently high to guarantee that E coordinates be bigger than N coordinates over the entire Swiss territory. Examples of LV03 coordinates - Rigi E=679520, N=212273 - Zürich-Seebach E=684592, N=252857
This same notation is used in both UTM and MGRS, i.e. the UTM grid reference system; the article on Universal Transverse Mercator shows many maps of these grid zones, including the irregularities for Svalbard and southwest Norway. As Figure 1 illustrates, Honolulu is in grid zone 4Q. Figure 1. The origin of the MGRS grid, in the Pacific.
The equatorial describes the sky as seen from the Solar System, and modern star maps almost exclusively use equatorial coordinates. The equatorial system is the normal coordinate system for most professional and many amateur astronomers having an equatorial mount that follows the movement of the sky during the night.
Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML notation for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers. KML was developed for use with Google Earth, which was originally named Keyhole Earth Viewer. It was created by Keyhole, Inc, which was acquired by Google in 2004.