The traditional geographic coordinate system identifies locations on the globe with a pair of long numbers. what3words proposes using language instead. Image via Wikimedia Commons/djexplo It's the ...

Under this system, an exact location on the earth's surface can be expressed as a set of numbers. The latitude and longitude of the Empire State Building, for example, is expressed as N40° 44. ...

Surveyors, however, are an interesting bunch in that they accept only the most accurate AND precise measurements. The growing use of LDP is rapidly changing the implementation and management of ...

Google Earth is a useful program to work on architectural projects, infrastructure engineering, and urbanism but also to simply locate yourself in a city, as it offers an accurate GPS system. To use ...

Australia is slowly drifting north at a constant rate, significantly throwing off its global coordinates, which could wreak havoc on GPS in future. A government organization is now working to ...

Blue Marble Geographics has launched its 2019 Geographic Calculator, which features a universal copy and paste function, a new angular unit conversion tool, support for NADCON 5.0 and updated seismic ...