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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 United States National Grid (USNG) is a multi-purpose location system of grid references used in the United States.It provides a nationally consistent "language of location", optimized for local applications, in a compact, user friendly format.
The town was designed as a "copyright trap" to enable the publishers to detect others copying their maps. A general store was alleged to exist at the intersection on the map and was given the name Agloe General Store because the name was on the Esso maps. [3] Long time residents and land owners contend that no store ever existed at the location.
Rockchapel (Irish: Séipéal na Carraige, meaning 'chapel of the rocks') is a village in north County Cork in Ireland. [1] It is located near the border of counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick.
The island was displayed on the Google Maps Internet mapping service until 26 November 2012, [14] [17] when it was removed. On Google Earth 's default view, the island area is covered by black pixels, but the program's historical imagery feature displays a satellite image of the southern portion taken by DigitalGlobe on 3 March 2009, showing a ...
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.
The only justified use of other CRS today is, perhaps, to preserve projection in large-scale maps, as local UTM, or for non-terrestrial coordinates such as those on the Moon or Mars. The syntax and semantic of the CRS parameter, separated by a semicolon, is described at section 8.3 of RFC 5870.
Warm Springs State Hospital. Deer Lodge was one of the original 9 Montana counties, as constituted with the establishment of the Montana Territory in 1864. [5] The original county included what are now Silver Bow County (separated in 1881 [6]), Deer Lodge County, Granite County (separated in 1893) and Powell County (separated in 1901 [7]).