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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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Converting OSM_ID to coordinates

I have downloaded some open street map data from Webgeo, but instead of coordinates it came with an "OSM_ID". I cannot seem to find any data dictionary or information about this variable on the web. ...
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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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Getting polygon shapefile node coordinates and point order

I am trying to get the coordinates of each node of a polygon in QGIS. What I basically did is use the following tools: Vector -> Geometry tools -> Extract nodes Vector -> Geometry tools -> Export ...
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Linear unit of a Coordinate system

My dataframe coordinate system is in UTM with linear unit Meter. If I have a Polygon shapefile in a UTM coordinate system with a linear unit of Foot_US and I am sent a shapefile in the same UTM ...
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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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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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How to Batch Change X, Y Coordinate Number in ArcGIS?

I have a huge number of points (100000 points). Some of these have the same x,y coordinates. For example, 50 points are same in x,y then 100 points are same in another x,y coordinates and so on. ...
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Interpolate current Course value of GPS using previous Course values

I have a set of GPS data with Lat, lon and Course. I need to interpolate current value of course, using previous values of Course. The formula I am using is not accurate in curves.In C language I was ...
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convert GPS to XY coordinates

if i have obtain GPS coordinates as Latitude/Longitude, then i need to convert them to XY coordinates, i see this link actually i need to get the Trilateration , in its equation i need the XY ...
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Google earth incorrectly rendering coordinates?

My circles are rendering funky on the poles, and along the equator. Here are my coordinates: 158.05553767833,-78.151355482613 152.68654993135,-76.924955252783 147.72303124605,-75.713526831152 ...
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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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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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OpenLayers maxExtent

I've displaying Ordnance Survey UK tiles in OpenLayers using a TMS Layer the scales are using are 1000K, 250K, 50K and 10K. I've set the maxExtent to 0.0, 0.0, 700000.0, 1300000.0 which is working ...
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Unable to dynamically locate map boundary coordinates in OSM/Leaflet

I have been trying for the past hour to take the coordinates of the map edge in a OSM/leaflet application I am making. While I can get the coordinates of the center, and I can get the coordinates of ...
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Python script to create a point WITH attributes values

GIS platform: ArcGIS 10.1 I have coded up a Python script that determines the coordinates of where I need to create a new (calibration)point, but I can't work out how to add it to a feature class ...
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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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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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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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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 ...