The good news is that digging your own trench by hand wonât cost you anything but time, plus what youâll spend for drain pipe and gravel, a new shovel, and maybe a bottle of aspirin for the following day. If you can get a friend or two to help out, even better.
We all know about latitude and longitude written as degrees, minutes, and seconds. Airpark is at 38Âº 39â 20.433â N, 77Âº 47â 13.975â W. Call this format Degrees-Minutes-Seconds. you might not be expecting.
The Equator is the line of 0Â° latitude, the starting point for measuring latitude. The latitude of the North Pole is 90Â° N, and that of the South Pole is 90Â° S. The latitude of every point in between must be some degree north or south, from 0Â° to 90Â°. One degree of latitude covers about 69 miles (111 kilometers). Longitude is measured in degrees east or west of the prime meridian. This means one half of the world is measured in degrees of east longitude up to 180Â°, and the other half in degrees of west longitude up to 180Â°.