1. How do you describe where you are?
Location
How do you describe where you are?

2. Relative Location
Explaining where something is in relation to something else

3. Use compass directions to describe location relative to something else

4. Relative Location The US is south of Canada
Ohio is west of Pennsylvania
Nebraska is northeast of Colorado
Relative Location

5. Absolute Location
Explaining where something is using a coordinate system

6. Address
1600 Pennsylvania Ave

7. Address

13. Explaining where something is using a coordinate system

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Explaining where something is using a coordinate system

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Homer City?

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23. Latitude Longitude System
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24. Based on a Sexagesimal system first used by Sumerians
Places the earth on a coordinate plane

25. Latitude and Longitude lines are a grid map system
Latitude and Longitude lines are a grid map system. But instead of being straight lines on a flat surface, Latitude and Longitude lines encircle the Earth, either as horizontal circles or vertical half circles
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26. latitude
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27. longitude
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29. The Military Grid Reference Systems (MGRS) is an alpha-numeric system for expressing coordinates. A single alpha- numeric value references a position that is unique for the entire earth.
Based on the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system
POSITIONING IN MGRS

30. Places the earth in the positive quadrant of a coordinate plane
Based on a decimal system

31. 15SWC

32. Leading zeros are included so that Zone 9 is “09”.
For polar areas outside the UTM area, these characters are omitted
The first two characters represent the 6° wide UTM zone.
15SWC

33. The third character is a letter designating a band of latitude.
Beginning at 80°S and preceding northward, the 20 bands are lettered C through X, (omitting I and O)
The bands are all 8° high except band X, which is 12° high.
Outside the UTM are, A and B are used near the South Pole, Y and Z near the North Pole
15SWC

34. The vertical UTM boundaries and horizontal latitude band boundaries form (generally) 6° X 8° Grid Zones. Hence, the first three characters of the MGRS value, e.g. “15S”, are referred to as the Grid Zone Designator (GZD)
15SWC

35. 15S

36. The fourth and fifth characters are a pair of letters identifying one of the 100,000-meter grid squares within the grid zone (or UPS area).
15SWC

37. 15SWC

38. The remaining characters consist of the numeric Easting and Northing values within the 100,000-meter grid square
15SWC

39. 15SWC8081751205 The first half refer to the Easting
The second half refers to the Northing
15SWC

40. MGRS coordinates may be rounded to reflect lesser refinement
MGRS coordinates may be rounded to reflect lesser refinement. For example:
15SWC  is at 1-meter refinement.
15SWC  is at 10-meter refinement.
15SWC808512 is at 100-meter refinement.
15SWC8151 is at 1000-meter refinement.
15SWC85 is at 10,000-meter refinement.