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  2. BMW Headquarters - Wikipedia

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    BMW Headquarters. /  48.17694°N 11.56000°E  / 48.17694; 11.56000. The BMW Headquarters ( German: BMW-Vierzylinder, lit. 'BMW four-cylinder' ), also known as the BMW Tower (German: BMW-Turm or BMW-Hochhaus ), is a high-rise building located in the Am Riesenfeld area of Munich, Germany. The building has served as the global corporate ...

  3. Geography of Germany - Wikipedia

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    57,485 km 2 (22,195 sq mi) General map of Germany. Germany ( German: Deutschland) is a country in Central and Western Europe [ 3] that stretches from the Alps, across the North European Plain to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia, and is seventh-largest country by area in the continent.

  4. Military Grid Reference System - Wikipedia

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    The Military Grid Reference System ( MGRS) [ 1] is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on Earth. The MGRS is derived from the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system and the Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) grid system, but uses a different labeling convention. The MGRS is used as geocode for the ...

  5. Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    Mercator 1569 world map ( Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata) showing latitudes 66°S to 80°N. The Mercator projection ( / mərˈkeɪtər /) is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for ...

  6. World map - Wikipedia

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    World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

  7. Wikipedia:Obtaining geographic coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Move a marker on a Google Maps map (map or satellite view) and get Latitude, Longitude and Elevation for the location. User interface in German language. NASA World Wind: Maps: Open source 3D interactive world viewer. See also: online version. Licensing: NOSA. Bing Maps: Maps: Provides geographical coordinates of a location when a "Pushpin" has ...

  8. World Geographic Reference System - Wikipedia

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    The World Geographic Reference System ( GEOREF) is a geocode, a grid-based method of specifying locations on the surface of the Earth. GEOREF is essentially based on the geographic system of latitude and longitude, but using a simpler and more flexible notation. GEOREF was used primarily in aeronautical charts for air navigation, [ 1 ...

  9. Module:Location map/data/Germany - Wikipedia

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    Location map of Germany. / 51.15; 10.5. Module:Location map/data/Germany is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Germany. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.