coordinate systems | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Fri, 28 May 2010 14:05:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 UTM https://boneblogger.com/utm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=utm Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:13:17 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=156 In a couple of previous posts we have examined latitude and longitude in some detail, and explored in what format the numbers might be displayed on your handheld GPS unit. Here we will explore another commonly used coordinate system: UTM. Latitude and longitude work well, but since they are all based upon circles, and because […]

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]]> Latitude and longitude 2 https://boneblogger.com/latitude-and-longitude-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=latitude-and-longitude-2 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:20:40 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=151 In the first discussion of latitude and longitude, we investigated how the latitude-longitude grid was established. In this post we will look at how that relates to the display on your handheld GPS unit. If I stand outside with my GPS and direct the unit to display my position, it may do so in a […]

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]]> Latitude & Longitude https://boneblogger.com/latitude-longitude/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=latitude-longitude Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:28:06 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=149 Thought question: when you are standing at the North Pole, which direction are you looking? A topic that I think people find a bit confusing is the coordinate systems commonly used in their handheld GPS units. The handheld GPS can tell you your exact location, and this is because cartographers have partitioned the surface of […]

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