What it really boils down to is how accurate you want to get. I
f you start at the extreme 1 second is approximately 90 feet give or
take depending on your location. That means that one minute is roughly
equal to 5,400 feet and one degree 324,000 feet.
So if you take 1/10th of a degree you get
The metric Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates were
pretty convenient for pinpointing locations on printed USGS topos, as
UTM grid ticks are shown in the margins. The block grid of the New
York State Breeding Bird Atlas follows UTM. I still have a few USGS
sheets on which I
I would STRONGLY advocate for decimal degrees. That does not mean degrees plus
decimal minutes by the way.
I'm engaged in building a database for our worldwide deployments of acoustic
listening devices and believe me, the 17 different ways people write down
locations are a nightmare to encode
