{"id":4352,"date":"2010-06-15T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T00:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2022-06-05T08:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T13:22:52","slug":"flipping-latlong-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/flipping-latlong-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipping Lat\/Long Directions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was looking at the Latitude \/ Longitude coordinates of my residence a few days ago and I decided to keep the same coordinates but switch between North and South, East and West. An easy way to do this is to drop the coordinates in Google Maps and then change between positives and negatives. So by extension that creates four possibilities for each numerical coordinate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Flipping<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As an example, my home has the same numerical longitude and latitude as this nice little farm in western China, but my longitude is a negative value (west) from the prime meridian rather than a positive value (east). The other two values put the location in the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific respectively, which isn’t nearly as interesting as a land-based result like the little farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That got me thinking about various possibilities. Could I find coordinates that return one, two, three and four land-based results?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Single Landing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The United Kingdom is great for finding single landings. Its numerical equivalents in the southern hemisphere fall directly in the middle of the South Atlantic. Also, double landings are really boring in the UK. The prime meridian runs through Greenwich. Flip the sign on the longitude and its going to land on a spot only a few miles away from the starting point. Yawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a single point of land, centering on Edinburgh, Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n