Talk:Decimal degrees

This article was nominated for merging with ISO 6709 on 12 May 2021 (UTC). The result of the discussion was no merge.

Google Maps

It appears, from testing, that Google Maps' UI does not support decimal degrees, if the API does, this should be clearer. HasanDiwan (talk) 16:38, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I just tested it, and searching on "38.889722,-77.008889" in Google Maps works just fine. Perhaps support for decimal degrees was added since the above comment? Winged Cat (talk) 18:44, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This page uses the term accuracy, where I believe precision would be better. There relationship between a decimal degree and and actual distance it represents is a question of precision.Wsmckenz (talk) 14:28, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.243.68.237 (talk) 19:33, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Minus longitude

The example doesn't explain how the longitude of the Capitol became minus. James Galloway (talk) 13:50, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

From the lead "negative longitudes are west of the Prime Meridian". mt 20:13, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Link seconds and minutes in Time with seconds and minutes in coordinates?

I remember a documentary where a link was made between both. Anybody remembers or know the link between both? I assume on a certain latitude the sun travel in 1 minute the distance of 1 nautical mile or so?

1 nautical mile is by definition 1 second on a great circle eg equator 360 degree = 60 x 360 minutes = 21600 nm