How To Write Coordinates
Cartographers write spherical coordinates latitudes and longitudes in degrees minutes seconds dms and decimal degrees.
How to write coordinates. To formulate coordinates you can use. Here are some tips for formatting your coordinates so they work on google maps. 30 25 326 15 31 265. When writing latitude and longitude write latitude first followed by a comma and then longitude. Use periods as decimals not commas.
Such as 10 s 055974 4282182. How to write coordinates. Positive and negative digits indicate directions. We have shown this with the coordinates 2 1. Find a location and figure out where the lines of latitude and longitude connect.
Such as 37 7 122 2 degrees minutes seconds. A second of latitude is. We write these numbers in brackets and separate them with a comma to form a coordinate pair. You write a line of latitude first. For example a coordinate might be written 65 32 15.
65 5375 degrees and decimal minutes. φ phi for latitude and λ lambda for longitude. For degrees minutes seconds minutes range from 0 to 60. Degrees can also be expressed as decimals. Then you add a decimal degree comma and decimal degree of longitude.
In our example we have moved 2 places right and 1 place up. You can choose any of these formats. There are several ways to write latitude and longitude coordinates they can be written in dms which stands for degrees minutes seconds it would look like this. Write coordinates with decimals. The next format would be degrees and decimal minu.