Any of a set of two or more numbers used to determine the position of a point, line, curve, or plane in a space of a given dimension with respect to a system of lines or other fixed references.

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How to get x and y coordinate values of an annotational featureclass

I am able to get the x and y coordinate values from point, polyline, polygon and multipoint type featureclasses. However, I am unable to export x and y coordinate values of an annotational ...
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Is there a ModestMaps or other flex library for finding the distance between 2 lat/lon coordinates?

I'm using ModestMaps in my Adobe Flex application. Is there a flex library method to calculate the distance between two of my lat/lon coordinates, or am I stuck coding the Haversine by hand? I've ...
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gdallocationinfo from C++?

I need a C++ API to convert x,y Image Coordinates in their native projection to output image pixel,line coordnates. I see the gdallocationinfo documentation, but no API for it. Where in online GDAL ...
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Translate geographical coordinate [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Calculating Lat/Lng X miles from point I would like to know how could I translate a geographical coordinate to an specific distance. So for example let's suppose I'm ...
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Natural Earth: How to get the position of each country?

I've just split the 1:10m Natural Earth countries into individual JSON files which I plan to render and partially stitch back together using RaphaelJS. The 1:10m map is very big (10mb or so) so ...
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How do I convert WSG-84 coordinates to lat/long? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: coordinate convertion: decimal degree to deg-min-sec of lat/long coordinate I am looking for either an online tool or one that I can download to convert WSG-84 ...
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What datum (reference ellipsoid) does Nasa Worldwind use?

What datum (reference ellipsoid) does Nasa Worldwind use? I can't seem to find where Nasa Worldwind tells explicitly what datum they use. I need some sort of valid link.
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If the Earth was flat, what unit of measurement would distances between geographic points be represented as?

A whole lot of abstraction- given two longitude/latitude points given from a GPS, I'm using the Pythagorean distance formula to find the distance between them. What unit of length would the distance ...
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Get geometry from coordinates

I have a table with geometry column called point, saved in SRID 4326. I want to get the geometry by its coordinates, but something didn't work. I suspect database configuration or something. Here is ...
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How to adjust the difference between the coordinate from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps

I have downloaded the OSM from OpenStreeMap that came with all nodes from the map and their respective coordinates. Now I have to plot a node (latitude and longitude) on Google Maps, but all ...
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How to find the proper coordinate reference system with two sets of data using different measurements or too convert one system into another

I have two different entries of data in two different spread sheets. One of the spread sheets uses a coordinate reference system that I have no idea what the units of measurement are. the properties ...
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Is there a way to get Openlayers' KML reader to deal with tessellation?

I'm trying to use OpenLayers' KML reader to display a KML file on a map, but the KML itself has LinearRings tha have a tessellate value of 1. I realize that this is used by google earth to snap the ...
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Drawing on jpg-map image with proj4 (perl)

From the point of view GIS professionals this question will be sure very primitive, but please keep in mind - i'm totally newbie in this area - and this is my 1st question here. Have several GPS ...
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Make POINT from longitude/latitude coordinates from existing table in PostGIS

I would like to make a POINT using the longitude and latitude columns of an existing table. Here's a link to the documentation of ST_MakePoint. Here's my table: CREATE TABLE sysinst.bio ( oid ...
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How to reproject WSF layer created from GeoJSON?

I have a WFS layer: myVecLayer_disp= new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Редактируемый участок",{projection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913")}); And i have feature store: var protocol=new ...
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To get attribute data of polygon layer by giving Lat/Lon

Is anyone having an idea about how to get attribute data of a polygon layer by giving Coordinates with in that polygon. Here i have tried with these codes.. SELECT * FROM kar_bbmp_198 WHERE ...
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convert GPS to x,y using reference node

i am using sensor nodes and their antenna to calculate GPS coordinates as notation of (degrees/minutes/seconds), i have some question of how to do these things: how can i convert latitude and ...
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clipping polygons (vector) map with a polygon (vector) layer

A frustrated newbie with QGIS Lisboa version in Windows 7. I want to clip a soil map (multiple polygon vectors) with a single polygon (rectangular polygon vector). The project projection is set at ...
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How to calculate new coordinates by given distance, angle and altitude

I'm using C function to calculate new coordinates by given distance and angle to download google static maps tile by tile to create small map at given zoom. I have troubles because this code works ...
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Can't select Coordinate Display in Status Bar units decimal degrees

Using ArcMap 10.1. I suddenly can't show deci-degrees for the Coordinate Display. Instead it shows deg-min-sec. The "Use these units..." box under ArcMap Options is checked and Decimal Degrees is ...
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Wrong coordinates in data when projecting in world map (qgis) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find the proper coordinate reference system with two sets of data using different measurements or too convert one system into another I'm fairly new to the GIS ...
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Get the continent given the latitude and longitude [closed]

I want to have certain code such that given the latitude and longitude as input, I want to get the continent which it belongs to? I know I can manually read the coordinates and then see that from the ...
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Why isn't there a 'Print Text Option' on the Answers Pages? [closed]

Why isn't there a 'Print Text Option' on the Answers Pages??? I can't remember all the different options and suggestions without printing them out. It would be "NICE" to be able to have a ...
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Coordinates move in sql server insert

When I insert a row in TableA in sql server I use this for the geometry column: geometry::STPolyFromText('POLYGON((x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3,x4,y4,x1,y1))', 3007) You can find the definition for ...
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World country borders in polygon geometry format [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Where do I get territories data? Is there some source I can get all world countries polygon geometry points with latitude and longitude? I find it for USA states but ...
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MapFish Print latitude, longitude innacuracy?

I'm new to GIS so this may be trivial: I'm using MapFish Print to create some PNG. I have issues to place the viewport. When I use a random GPS coordinate: -20.904522,55.475106 which seem to point ...
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How we add XY coordinates (in the attribut table) from shapefile (points) using QGIS? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to get the coordinates in Lat/long from a point layer? I created a new shape file and edited to add points at specific location. Now, I would like to extract the XY ...
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Calculating ECEF X, Y, and Z velocities between 2 points on Earth [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I calculate ECEF X,Y,Z velocities for GPS if I have no satellites This is my third attempt at explaining what I'm trying to do. If I have two ECEF X, Y, Z ...
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Question on Geodesy [duplicate]

How important is it to understand geodesy when dealing with GIS? Also does anyone have recommendations on learning more about geodesy?

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