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How do you determine the absolute location of a place?
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Tim Zukas
Answered 2 years ago · Author has 3.9K answers and 1.2Manswer views
You can define “absolute location” however you like, but I’d say we can’t determine it. Every point on earth is constantly moving as the earth turns, and as the earth orbits the sun and the sun orbits the galactic center.
When we say a point is latitude so-and-so, longitude so-and-so we’re trying to say where it is relative to Greenwich and to the equator. Decades ago we said the point’s lat-lon was a bit different, on a different datum. And the lat-lon was a bit different, in a different direction, due to movement of the earth’s crust.
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George Sagini
, Bachelor of arts Geography and Religion & Geography, Africa Nazarene University
Answered 2 years ago
There are two methods of describing a location: absolute location and relative location.
Relative location is a location in relation to another (across the street from the In N' Out Burger).
Absolute location is a fixed point on a map, expressed through any number of methods, from giving an address (123 In N' Out Lane) to a Lat/Long or Northing/Easting coordinate
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BJ Raval
, Studied and practised Architecture as well as Urban Design
Answered 3 years ago · Author has 278 answers and 753.4Kanswer views
Originally Answered: How can we locate a place using absolute location?
An absolute location is a location that can be located on the planet absolute certainty such as latitude and longitude pair of numbers. Putting it another way, an absolute location is one that is measured with sufficient detail in a planetary coordinate system so that no other object can share that location with any other object.
An absolute location of a place or an object can only be located by humans (“we” in your question) by comprehending it “relatively” to another absolute location in the same coordinate system.
This is why a location of a place (perhaps represented by a ‘pinpoint’) is always shown where on a street map it is. If shown by itself, it would simply remain a point in space and no one would know where is.
Think about it: An ‘absolute’ is known only by a ‘relative’, either in space or in time.