Geographic Coordinate System

Geographic coordinate systemWikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceA geographic coordinate system expresses every location on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of Earth.First and Second Dimensions: Latitude and LongitudeBorrowing from theories of ancient Babylonians, later expanded by the famous Greek thinker and geographer Ptolemy, a full circle is assigned 360 degrees (360°).latitude (Lat.) is the angle between any point and the equator. Lines of constant latitude are called parallels. They trace circles on the surface of Earth, but the only parallel that is a great circle is the equator (latitude=0 degrees), with each pole being 90 degrees (north pole 90° N; south pole 90° S).longitude (Long.) is the angle east or west of an arbitrary point on Earth: The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (UK) is the international zero-longitude point (longitude=0 degrees). The anti-meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E. Lines of constant longitude are called meridians. The meridian passing through Greenwich is the Prime Meridian. Unlike parallels, all meridians are halves of great circles, and meridians are not parallel: they intersect at the north and south poles.By combining these two angles, the horizontal position of any location on Earth can be specified.For example, Baltimore, Maryland (in the USA) has a latitude of 39.3° North, and a longitude of 76.6° West (). So, a vector drawn from the center of Earth to a point 39.3° north of the equator and 76.6° west of Greenwich will pass through Baltimore.This latitude/longitude "webbing" is known as the common graticule. There is also a complementary transverse graticule (meaning the graticule is shifted 90°, so that the poles are on the horizontal equator), upon which all spherical trigonometry is ultimately based.Traditionally, degrees have been divided into minutes (′ ) and seconds (″ ). There are several formats for degrees, all of them appearing in a Lat.-Long. order:DM Degree:Minute (49:30.0-123:30.0)DMS Degree:Minute:Second (49:30:00-123:30:00)DD Decimal Degree (49.5000-123.5000), generally with 4 decimal numbers.To change from DM or DMS to DD, Decimal degrees = whole number of degrees, plus minutes divided by 60, plus seconds divided by 3600. Decimal division is now the most common and standard.The equator is obviously an important part of this coordinate system, it represents the zeropoint of the latitude angle, and the halfway point between the poles. The equator is the fundamental plane of the geographic coordinate system. All spherical coordinate systems define such a fundamental plane.Latitude and Longitude values are established based on an associated Geodetic system or datum such as WGS 84. In other words, the same exact point on the earth’s surface will be expressed by different latitude and longitude values, depending on the reference datum.In popular GIS software, data projected in latitude/longitude is often specified via a 'Geographic Coordinate System'. For example, data in latitude/longitude with the datum as the North American Datum of 1983 is denoted by 'GCS_North_American_1983'.Third dimension: altitude, height, depth To completely specify a location on, in, or above Earth, one has to also specify the elevation. The elevation specifies the vertical position of the location relative to some measure of Earth's surface. This could be expressed in terms of the vertical distance to Earth below, but, because of the ambiguity of "surface" and "vertical", is more commonly expressed relative to a more precisely defined datum such as mean sea level (as height above mean sea level) or the geoid. The distance to Earth's center is a practical coordinate both for very deep positions and for positions in space.Various elevation / height coordinates either with respect to the surface or some other datum are altitude, height, and depth.Geostationary coordinates Geostationary satellites (e.g., television satellites ) are over the equator. So, their position related to Earth is expressed in longitude degrees. Their latitude does not change, and is always zero over the equator.See alsoGeographic information system (GIS)Global Positioning System (GPS)Geographic coordinate conversiongeocodesTropic of CancerTropic of CapricornGreat-circle distance explains how to find that quantity if one knows the two latitudes and longitudes.Map projectionUniversal Transverse Mercator coordinate systemReferencesPortions of this article are from Jason Harris' "Astroinfo" which is distributed with KStars, a desktop planetarium for Linux/KDE. 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Hypothetically Speaking...

Hypothetically speaking, if your naval and umbilical cord is considered your birth, then the opposite would be your lower spinal cord, death.

Looking at the earth, if Egypt is the birth of the world, then the Bermuda Triangle would be death.

What magnetic fields do these opposites pose?

When aligning the chakras of the physical body by birth-death to the earths birth-death, where do the longitudes and latitudes (meridians) correspond to one another? Where would the earths chakras and pressure points be with the strongest magnetism?

How would this information be helpful pertaining to elevated low frequencies?

I Want To Tell You Something......................

........................ About Your Brain!!

Your brain controls and monitors all bodily functions, made up of about 1,000 billion neurons, and is one of the largest organs of the body.

The reflexes relating to the head and the neck are located on the five toes and five fingers of both feet and both hands. In your case, (paws).

Divide your foot or paw into three sections width wise. The top portion deals with the upper section of the body, the middle portion deals with the middle section, and the bottom portion deals with the lower section of the body.

WARNING: Consult a physician or a professional reflexoligist if pregnant before applying massage techniques or pressure to the reflexes. It could cause an abortion or undue miscarriage.

Disharmony starts in the aura, or magnetic field, which surrounds us. If it is not dealt with at this level, it will manifest as disease in the physical body. Because the aura interpenetrates with the physical body, we automatically work with it when treating the feet and hands. This is how reflexology can be a preventive treatment.

Like the earth which is divided into longitude sections, so is your body which are called meridians. Each meridian starts or ends on one of the toes or fingers. In your case (paws).

When a reflex or pressure point is painful for no apparent reason, it may be due to an imbalance in the meridian which runs through it. (A river runs through it. Ha, Ha.) Seriously though, blockages can deal with emotions and you may need some help getting through some of them. For instance if you're feeling pursecuted for some reason, check to see if your legs are bothering you specifically the knee area. If so, massage the leg and specifically the knee area. Get the circulation flowing, visualize oxygen into the area, and if you need some professional help, seek it.

Disharmony in the aura is "seen" as either an absence of color, or wrong colors in the wrong places. So don't forget the color wheel, the opposites of colors that cancel each other out, your chakras and the frequencies that correlate with them. But more on the subject a little later.