Question: I have a new dash cam for my car and it adds GPS information to the video footage. Problem is, that’s shown in some cryptic latitude/longitude notation. How can I convert it to locations on ...
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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 ...
We use imaginary lines to help locate where a place is in the world. the Arctic Circle (the North Pole) the Antarctic Circle (the South Pole) the Tropic of Cancer the Tropic of Capricorn and the ...
It's easy to work out your longitude using a radio, watch and sundial, but as castaways on Capraia we had none of these. Even though we built a radio, we still needed some sort of timepiece, so we ...
IN this concise little book the art of navigation is treated from an elementary standpoint. Commencing by explaining the meaning of a few mathematical expressions, including triangles, the author goes ...
Have you ever heard of John Harrison? Harrison saw a problem and had a driving vision on how to correct it. In the late 1600s, more than 200 years after Columbus reached the New World, there were many ...
Determining one's latitude on land is relatively easy, says surveyor Bob Bergantino. When on land, an artificial horizon is needed to replace the horizon that only exists on the ocean. To create the ...
Once you've found the North Star it's simple to determine your latitude. 1. First, locate the Big Dipper, Ursa Major (called The Plough in the U.K.). 2. Find the two stars that make up the far end of ...
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