Geographic coordinate system
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title:
Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude. It is the simplest, oldest and most widely used of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and forms the basis for most others. Although latitude and longitude form a coordinate tuple like a cartesian coordinate system, the geographic coordinate system is not cartesian because the measurements are angles and are no
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System to specify locations on Earth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system
date created:
2002-04-09T07:29:46Z
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2024-09-09T15:04:46Z
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