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derleth
on April 29, 2012
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Fun with Emacs Calc
To use this code in any serious capacity, remember the sign conventions: North latitude and East longitude are both positive, South latitude and West longitude are both negative.
It's utterly arbitrary but fairly universal.
tikhonj
on April 29, 2012
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If you think about north as up and west as left, then it works out the same as a coordinate plane, so it makes sense.
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It's utterly arbitrary but fairly universal.