A card from a free library — ask anything, no account, works offline. Every card carries its source.

Coordinates — the grid on the globe

geography

A degree of latitude is about 111 km (sealed), a minute of arc a nautical mile; latitude and longitude turn the globe into addressable space.

source

Narrow Highway — geography

card id

card_geography_coordinates

address

WIT.codex.FCT/coordinates-the-grid-on-the-globe/REF.WITNESSED@narrow-highway

adjoining cards

part of → Geography — the measured Earth — a pillar (Coordinates)
connects at → Earth science — the planet, read in deep time — the coordinate grid on the planet
connects at → The instruments — every verifier and validator, and where they join — coordinates and distance are geometry - the measure spine