Talk:Decimal degrees
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Google Maps
[edit]It appears, from testing, that Google Maps' UI does not support decimal degrees, if the API does, this should be clearer. HasanDiwan (talk) 16:38, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- I just tested it, and searching on "38.889722,-77.008889" in Google Maps works just fine. Perhaps support for decimal degrees was added since the above comment? Winged Cat (talk) 18:44, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- The examples in square brackets used used U+2212 : MINUS SIGN (which doesn't work in Google Maps) though the text said they should be U+002D : HYPHEN-MINUS (which does). I edited to correct. Rohanuk (talk) 17:48, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
This page uses the term accuracy, where I believe precision would be better. There relationship between a decimal degree and and actual distance it represents is a question of precision.Wsmckenz (talk) 14:28, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
- Fixed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.243.68.237 (talk) 19:33, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Minus longitude
[edit]The example doesn't explain how the longitude of the Capitol became minus. James Galloway (talk) 13:50, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
- From the lead "negative longitudes are west of the Prime Meridian". +mt 20:13, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
Link seconds and minutes in Time with seconds and minutes in coordinates?
[edit]I remember a documentary where a link was made between both. Anybody remembers or know the link between both? I assume on a certain latitude the sun travel in 1 minute the distance of 1 nautical mile or so?
1 nautical mile is by definition 1 second on a great circle eg equator 360 degree = 60 x 360 minutes = 21600 nm