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Originally posted by alexanderbandukwala:

what are latitude and longitude minutes?


 

Latitude and longitude are commonly used divisions of the globe. There are 360 divisions (or degrees) of each as you traverse around the globe. The North/South divisions are called Latitude and The East/West divisions are called longitude. Lat and Lon are both commonly divided into 60 divisions called minutes which are commonly further divided into 60 divisions known as seconds. So 60 sec = 1 min, 60 min = 1 degree.

 

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Originally posted by mckee:

That leads to the next questions, how many feet in a second?

 

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Searching for the lost, Geocache.......


 

I'm glad Markwell already answered that one in detail. My answer would have been one of my favorite answers: That Depends icon_smile.gif

 

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