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The Shag Harbour UFO incident was the reported impact of an unknown large object into waters near Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, a small fishing village on the Atlantic coast, on 4 October 1967. The reports were investigated by various Canadian civilian ( RCMP and Canadian Coast Guard ) and military ( Canadian Forces navy and air force) agencies as ...
All data and queries are Free. If the data could be formatted in a more convenient way, let me know. - Redjar 14:14, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC) GeoCode Eagle will give you coordinates for up to 25 U.S. addresses free. TopoZone can give you coordinates for a number of U.S. place names free. From the USGS, so biased towards natural/national landmarks.
To add to the top of an article, use {{}}, {{Coord|57|18|22|N|4|27|32|W|display=title}} These coordinates are in degrees, minutes, and seconds of arc. "title" means that the coordinates will be displayed next to the article's title at the top of the page (in desktop view only; title coordinates do not display in mobile view) and before any other text or images.
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and many other options. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth , Copernix.io and Wikimedia's map ...
To learn how to add geographic coordinates to a page using templates, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. To paste a location map with a dot (using the city of Madrid as an example), copy and paste the following code: {{Location map|Spain|label=Madrid|mark=Green_pog.svg |lat=40.5|long=-3.7|width=230|float=center}}
The list of national coordinate reference systems (CRS) lists map projections officially recommended for existing countries. Given that every projection gives deformations, each country's needs are different in order to reduce these distortions.
Map of the no-fly zones in Iraq after the Gulf War. Operation Provide Comfort took place in the northern no-fly zone, labeled as "NORTHERN NFZ" on the map An AWACS aircraft operates out of Incirlik Air Base during OPC. On 7 April 1991, Iraq accepted United Nations (UN) ceasefire conditions and resolutions, thereby officially ending the Gulf War.
The Open Location Code (OLC) is a geocode based on a system of regular grids for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth. [1] It was developed at Google's Zürich engineering office, [2] and released late October 2014. [3] Location codes created by the OLC system are referred to as "plus codes".