When a crime report comes in, the scene is assigned a longitude and latitude.
Sailors could not accurately determine their longitude at sea, limiting exploration and resulting in deadly shipwrecks.
For a mission, the pair move south to the equator at 154 degrees West Longitude.
These buoys are placed at intervals along specific lines of longitude throughout the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
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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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For a mission, the rig and control vessel are moved south to the equator at 154 degrees West Longitude.
With an accurate clock, you could take a reading from the sun at noon and figure out your longitude.
"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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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.
But, also like ancient mariners (who knew their latitude, but not their longitude), such solar reckoning cannot tell them when to stop.
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.
The British scientists of the 18th Century knew all about longitude.
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.
Eighteenth-century British leaders knew they needed to figure out longitude.
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.
As a seafaring nation, Britain depended on accurate navigation, and determining longitude on the open ocean depended on comparing local time to the time in a place where the longitude was known.
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When H4 was taken on a testing voyage across the Atlantic in 1764, it established the longitude of Barbados to within 9.8 nautical miles (18.1 km) of what we know it to be today.
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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In 1761, a British carpenter named John Harrison built the first marine chronometer, capable of keeping time on board a rolling boat and providing ship captains with a way to determine their longitude during a voyage.
They achieved one of the most hotly contested aviation goals on Saturday when they passed over Mauritania and crossed the 9 degrees west longitude mark -- the official finish line for their flight around the 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 Indian Ocean was displayed as a large sea surrounded by land, while many of his measurements of longitude (something that was very hard to measure accurately until John Harrison's timepiece won a famous competition in the 18th century) were way off beam.
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The second stage opened the capsule in 144 seconds, separated itself from the rocket in 266 seconds and fell on the open waters of the Pacific 1, 646 km off from the launching station, that is 40 degrees 13 minutes north latitude 149 degrees 07 minutes east longitude.
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