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Location

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The terms location and place in geography are used to identify a point or an area on the Earth's surface or elsewhere. [1]

24 relations: Cartesian coordinate system, Covent Garden, Earth, Equator, Geography, Geometry, Global Positioning System, Greenwich, Guilford Press, Human settlement, Lake Maracaibo, Latitude, Location Location Location Australia, Location, Location, Location, London, Longitude, Natural Area Code, Place identity, Point (geometry), Prime meridian (Greenwich), Seattle, Sense of place, Spherical coordinate system, World Geodetic System.

Cartesian coordinate system

A Cartesian coordinate system is a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular directed lines, measured in the same unit of length.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in Greater London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between Charing Cross Road and Drury Lane.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Equator

An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel).

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Geography

Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth.

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Geometry

Geometry (from the γεωμετρία; geo- "earth", -metron "measurement") is a branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space.

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.

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Greenwich

Greenwich is an area of south east London, England, located east-southeast of Charing Cross.

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Guilford Press

Guilford Publications, Inc. is a New York City-based independent publisher founded in 1973 that specializes in publishing books, journals, and DVDs in psychology, psychiatry, the behavioral sciences, education, and geography.

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Human settlement

In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live.

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Lake Maracaibo

Lake Maracaibo (Lago de Maracaibo) is a large brackish tidal bay (or tidal estuary) in Venezuela and an "inlet of the Caribbean Sea." It is sometimes considered a lake rather than a bay or lagoon.

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Latitude

In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.

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Location Location Location Australia

Location Location Location Australia is an Australian television series presented by Bryce Holdaway and Veronica Morgan.

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Location, Location, Location

Location, Location, Location is a Channel 4 property programme, presented by Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer and produced by IWC Media, part of the RDF Media Group.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Longitude

Longitude, is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface.

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Natural Area Code

The Natural Area Code (or Universal Address) is a proprietary geocode system for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth, or a volume of space anywhere around the Earth.

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Place identity

Place identity or place-based identity refers to a cluster of ideas about place and identity in the fields of geography, urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, environmental psychology, ecocriticism and urban sociology/ecological sociology.

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Point (geometry)

In modern mathematics, a point refers usually to an element of some set called a space.

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Prime meridian (Greenwich)

A prime meridian, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, England, was established by Sir George Airy in 1851.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Sense of place

The term sense of place has been used in many different ways.

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Spherical coordinate system

In mathematics, a spherical coordinate system is a coordinate system for three-dimensional space where the position of a point is specified by three numbers: the radial distance of that point from a fixed origin, its polar angle measured from a fixed zenith direction, and the azimuth angle of its orthogonal projection on a reference plane that passes through the origin and is orthogonal to the zenith, measured from a fixed reference direction on that plane.

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World Geodetic System

The World Geodetic System (WGS) is a standard for use in cartography, geodesy, and satellite navigation including GPS.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location

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