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Marsden square

Jan 14, 2022MrKuchewarEncyclopedia

Marsden square mapping or Marsden squares is a system that divides a chart of the world with latitude-longitude gridlines (e.g. plate carrée projection, Mercator or other) between 80°N and 70°S latitudes (or 90°N and 80°S: refer chart at Ocean Teacher’s Ocean Geography page) into grid cells of 10° latitude by 10° longitude, each with a unique, numeric identifier. William Marsden, when first secretary of the Admiralty (United Kingdom), conceived of this method for collecting and combining

MARC standards

Jan 14, 2022MrKuchewarEncyclopedia

MARC (machine-readable cataloging) standards are a set of digital formats for the description of items catalogued by libraries, such as books. Computerized library catalogs and library management software need to structure their catalog records as per a industry-wide standard, which is MARC, so that bibliographic information can be shared freely between computers. The structure of bibliographic records almost universally follow the

License

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A license (American English) or licence (British English) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit). A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreement between those parties. In the case of a license issued by a

List of ITU letter codes

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The radiocommunication division of the International Telecommunication Union uses the following letter codes to identify its member countries. Eight countries are assigned single-letter codes ( B, D, E, F, G, I, J, S), while the rest have codes three letters in length. The names of the countries are shown as mentioned in the ITU’s official list. ITU country symbols for its member states[1] Code Country A AFG Afghanistan AFS South Africa (Republic

Projected coordinate system

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A projected coordinate system, also known as a projected coordinate reference system, a planar coordinate system, or grid reference system, is a type of spatial reference system that represents locations on the Earth using cartesian coordinates (x,y) on a planar surface created by a particular map projection. Each projected coordinate system, such as “Universal Transverse Mercator WGS 84 Zone 26N,” is defined by a choice of

Ghor Province

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Ghōr (Dari/Pashto: غور), also spelled Ghowr or Ghur, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is located in the western Hindu Kush in central Afghanistan, towards the north-west. The province contains eleven districts, encompassing hundreds of villages, and approximately 764,472 settled people. Firuzkoh, (called Chaghcharan until 2014) serves as the capital of the province. Contents 1Etymology 2History 2.1Karzai and Ghani administrations 2.2Taliban administration

Address geocoding

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Address geocoding, or simply geocoding, is the process of taking a text-based description of a location, such as an address or the name of a place, and returning geographic coordinates, frequently latitude/longitude pair, to identify a location on the Earth’s surface. Reverse geocoding, on the other hand, converts geographic coordinates to a description of a location, usually the name of a place or

geo URI scheme

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The geo URI scheme is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force’s RFC 5870 (published 8 June 2010) as: a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for geographic locations using the ‘geo’ scheme name. A ‘geo’ URI identifies a physical location in a two- or three-dimensional coordinate reference system in a compact, simple, human-readable, and protocol-independent way. The current revision of

Bavaria

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Bavaria , officially the Free State of Bavaria Bavarian: Freistoot Bayern), is a federal state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of 70,550.19 square kilometres (27,239.58 sq mi), Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany. With over 13 million inhabitants, it is second in population only to North Rhine-Westphalia, but due

Walong Advanced Landing Ground

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Walong Advanced Landing Ground is an Indian Air Force airstrip located at Walong on the banks of Lohit River in Anjaw District of Arunachal Pradesh, India.[1] It is nearly 50 km north of district headquarter at Hawai, nearly 30 km south of India-China LAC (near Kaho village), and 70 km southwest of Diphu Pass near India-China-Myanmar tri-junction. Contents 1History 2See also 3References 4External links History The airstrip was in operation during 1962 Indo-China War and was