The values below the latitude and longitude displayed
They are the latitude and longitude expressed in decimal degrees. Decimal Degrees on Wikipedia.
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I'm trying to match latitude DECIMAL (10,8) and longitude DECIMAL (11,8) in my database by latitude and longitude that only have 4 decimal places. I'm trying to compare addresses but since addresses are all in different formats, I figured latitude and longitude is the next best thing.
So right now I have to do this:
select *
from locations
where (latitude BETWEEN 33.29940 AND 33.29949) AND
(longitude BETWEEN -111.89889 AND -111.89880)
Where I search between 0 and 9 of each number. But it's pretty clunky. I'd rather be able to do something like LIKE %33.2994% instead.
So what's the best way (performance-wise and easy to read) to search these latitude and longitude fields?
Hello there's I am use google's Heatmap feature in my project. I do not know whats the maximum points (latitude ,longitude )limit for google's heatmap to visualization.
There is no limit to the number of points added to the heatmap, but there are practical constraints (the memory of the device displaying them, the time to load them, etc.)
Longitude is in the range -180 and +180 specifying coordinates west and east of the Prime Meridian, respectively. For reference, the Equator has a latitude of 0°, the North pole has a latitude of 90° north (written 90° N or +90°), and the South pole has a latitude of -90°.
The limit is for longitude and latitude not for google heatmap feature for using latitude or longitude. If your latitude/longitude is in valid range , it will work.
I came across a dataset which has Latitude values in the range (0,181.763) i.e. minimum latitude is 0 degree and maximum latitude is 181.763 degree and Longitude values in the range (228.722,242.008) i.e. minimum latitude is 228.722 degree and maximum latitude is 242.008 degree. Is there some way by which I may confine the latitude and longitude's to correct boundaries?
well if they are spherical coordinates, long 181.763deg points in the same direction as -178.237deg or 361.763deg, depending on the conventions used
to transform latitude ranges of (228.722,242.008) to (-90,90) the transformation matrix to use is ((x-228.722)/0.073811)-90 for each point x. for example 229.3deg gives -82.169deg
it could be that you are using slightly scaled (elliptical) polar coordinates and you can transform them back by division...
NOAA gives a Polygon area for plotting shapes on a map. The only thing I can find in google maps is to use a lat/lon to create a shape.
You can view the warnings here with their polygons:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/regsci/gis/last10.html
Can somebody please tell me what these 4 digit numbers represent and if it's possible to convert them to a latitude / longitude.
The numbers are hundredths of degrees. A 4-digit number is latitude, so for instance 3503 represents 35.03 degrees North latitude. A 5-digit number is longitude, so 10581 would be 105.81 degrees West longitude.
I'm working on a simulator that plots the flight path of an aircraft on Google Maps.
The simulator is not aware that the latitude is only defined between -90 and +90 degrees and the longitude between -180 and +180 deg. As a result of this, the flight path may include points beyond the map boundaries. Exceeding in longitude is not an issue as it still plots correctly (a point at longitude x and x+360 is the same), but the latitude is a problem.
Is there any way of telling Google Maps to keep the points between the correct boundaries and plot them correctly?
Otherwise, do you have any ideas of where to find functions that do so?
Longitude, latitude and elevation are a bad coordinate system for a flight simulator, because the mapping presents singularities i.e. there are points infinitely close on the earth that have very different coordinates. For example where you're close to one of the poles longitude variation speed can become arbitrarily big compared to airplane speed. When standing exactly on the pole the longitude doesn't even make sense.
A better solution is to use an XYZ coordinate system for the simulator and only convert to longitude/latitude and elevation for plotting. If you can approximate the earth to a sphere for your use case the computation of this transformation is trivial... otherwise things can get much more complex depending on how accurate you want it to be.
That said it's still possible to give "a" meaning to a point with latitude slightly outside the range -90...90 by extending it over the pole...
if latitude < -90:
latitude = -180 - latitude
longitude = longitude + 180
if latitude > 90:
latitude = 180 - latitude
longitude = longitude + 180
but using this coordinate system for navigating is a very bad idea (the same point in space can have multiple triplets of coordinates).
If your simulator doesn't know that the maximum value for latitude is 90 degrees it is broken and needs to be fixed. Google Maps works correctly for valid/possible values of latitude and longitude.