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[edit]

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[edit]

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?[edit]

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