This allows the designers to type in the latitude and longitude of any place on Earth and realistically model the landscape.
The people on the ground are watching through binoculars a few hundred yards away and calling specific locations, in latitude and longitude.
He's so frustrated that he finally added the precise, accurate latitude and longitude to the resort website in hopes that will help guide guests.
Mr Cook said a universal method was needed as coastguards used latitude and longitude when they rescued at sea, and people used postcodes and street names when they gave directions.
For an accurate location, you need to be able to pick up signals from at least three satellites, for what is called a "2D fix, " that includes latitude and longitude.
This high-performance camera also comes with built-in GPS capabilities so photographers can easily log even their most exotic travels by pinpointing the exact latitude and longitude where the image was captured.
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It recommended using geometric lines of latitude and longitude to convey a three-dimensional Earth on a two-dimensional surface, and it included the co-ordinates of over 8, 000 locations in the ancient world.
Then by downloading the free "FUJIFILM Camera Application, " the FinePix F800EXR is also able to record the user's current location data provided by the smartphone or tablet's location data (latitude and longitude), and display it on the F800EXR's LCD.
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The participants in the challenege will get a two month set of data from the National Airspace System, which includes a slew of data such as flight number, origin, destination, take-off time, arrival time, latitude and longitude at frequent interim waypoints along the journey and weather and wind data.
The popular map and driving directions services of GYM have been a windfall for Navteq, which owns the longitude and latitude data, and deCarta, which crunches the data.
When a crime report comes in, the scene is assigned a longitude and latitude.
"It's not like you have the exact longitude and latitude of each strike, " said Peter Bergen, a CNN national-security analyst.
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For on-location shooters, landscape photographers or enthusiast photo travelers, the EOS 6D features a built-in GPS receiver to record longitude, latitude, elevation and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as EXIF data for seamless geo-tagging while shooting.
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The new hotshoe-mounted O-GPS1 module fixes that oversight by recording latitude, longitude, altitude, Coordinated Universal Time and shooting angle.
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