Project 1

Coordinates and Projections


1. Geographic and Plane Coordinates of Selected Cities

City Lat. Long. UTM Zone Easting Northing
New York, U.S.A.

40°42' N

74°00' W

18

584,482 m

4,505,936 m

Baghdad, Iraq

33°21' N

44°25' E

38

445,723 m

3,690,241 m

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

22°53' S

43°17' W

23

676,096 m

7,468,369 m

Sydney, Australia

33°55' S

151°10' E

56

330,519 m

6,245,571 m

2. Plotting Points and Map Projections

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Map 1 Metadata

BOUNDING COORDINATES
West Bounding Coordinate: -75°
East Bounding Coordinate: -32°
North Bounding Coordinate: 6°
South Bounding Coordinate: -30°


NOMINAL SCALE: 1:40,000,000 (Note: Actual representative fraction varies with screen or printer resolution. Bar scale is always correct.)


PROJECTION TYPE:  Cylindric
PROJECTION NAME:  Mercator
PROPERTY PRESERVED:  Angles measured at points on the map equal to angles measured at points on the globe.

 

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Map 2 Metadata

BOUNDING COORDINATES
West Bounding Coordinate: -180°
East Bounding Coordinate: 180°
North Bounding Coordinate: 90°
South Bounding Coordinate: -90°


NOMINAL SCALE: 1:350,000,000 (Note: Actual representative fraction varies with screen or printer resolution. Bar scale is always correct.)


PROJECTION TYPE:  Planar
PROJECTION NAME:  Azimuthal Equidistant
PROPERTY PRESERVED:  Distances measured from the center point to all other points on the map are correct.

 

Sources
Geographic coordinates: Getty Information Institute Thesaurus of Geographic Names
UTM coordinates: Alan Morton's Transverse Mercator Calculator
Map projections: Online Map Creation