Why did the elephant wear tennies? Because ninies were too small and elevenies were too big. Why do we use…

The screen shot at right shows a web mapping application that reports the location of a mouse click to one…

Reporting the Location of a Toxic Spill This is how an electric utility reported the rupture of an oil-filled transformer…

Sometimes folks incorporate geographic coordinates into a work product without fully understanding the mathematical and historical underpinnings of GC systems.…

Mapping Dwarf Lake Iris at Gilson Creek Dr. James Horn did some plant inventory work in Door County. His report…

The DM and DMS notations are the traditional standard for defining location. Folks who’ve grown up with the legacy notations…

Geographic coordinate systems use a pair of angular measurements to define the location of each point on the surface of…

This article, originally published on the now defunct National Atlas website, includes “plain English” definitions of latitude and longitude and…

Numbers used to define location are scientific measurements in the same sense as any measured variable. The rules governing the…