Zones that are long in the north south direction use the Transverse Mercator projection because it is better at maintaining accuracy along a north south axis, due to the circumference of the projection cylinder being oriented along a meridian of longitude.
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The meridian of longitude passing through the Greenwich Observatory in England was chosen as the starting point for the world's time zones in 1884, when an international conference set up 12 time zones west of Greenwich and 12 to the east.
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Any " meridian of longitude " ( a section by any vertical plane through the origin ) is a Lam?curve with exponent " t ", stretched horizontally by a factor " w " that depends on the sectioning plane.
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Let's take a point of latitude \, \ varphi and of longitude \, \ lambda and compute its UTM coordinates as well as meridian convergence \ gamma \, \ ! using a reference meridian of longitude \ lambda _ { 0 }.
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In February 2007, on the aircraft's first overseas deployment to Kadena Air Base, six F-22s of 27th Fighter Squadron flying from Hickam AFB, Hawaii, experienced multiple software-related system failures while crossing the International Date Line ( 180th meridian of longitude ).
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These boundaries on the 32nd meridian of longitude west from Washington remained when Colorado became a state on August 1, 1876, Utah became a state on January 4, 1896, New Mexico became a state on January 6, 1912, and Arizona became a state on February 14, 1912.
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But the real difference, as the she notes, is that the zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by nature and is the equator, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude is simply wherever science decides to place it ( for more than 200 years at Greenwich, England ).
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The Queensland Boundaries Declaratory Act 1982 confirmed " that each land boundary of the State . . . as . . . defined in the Letters Patent . . . by reference to a parallel of latitude or a meridian of longitude is and always has been the boundary . . . permanently fixed by marking it upon on the surface of the earth before 1900 . . . ".
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However, The Queensland Boundaries Declaratory Act 1982 confirmed " that each land boundary of the State . . . as . . . defined in the Letters Patent . . . by reference to a parallel of latitude or a meridian of longitude is and always has been the boundary . . . permanently fixed by marking it upon on the surface of the earth before 1900 . . . ".
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Whereas : " The meridians of longitude go the other way : They loop from the North Pole to the South and back again in great circles of the same size, so they all converge at the ends of the earth . " ( Although Ms . Sobel never explains how to remember that it's the latitudes and not the longitudes that are parallel, one trick is to associate the " a " sounds in latitude and parallel .)
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