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.
Reading Latitude and Longitude on a map If you look at the picture above you will notice the latitude and longitude in the upper right hand corner of the map. You would read it as 35 degrees 22 minutes 30 seconds north latitude and 111 degrees 30 minutes west longitude. Below the title you will notice the words 7.5 minute map. This means that the map covers an area of 7.5 minutes of latitude and longitude. Lets look at how we can determine location in terms of latitude and longitude from a topographic map. The diagram below is a very simplified version of a topographic map.