Geodetic System (WGS) is a standard used in cartography, geodesy, and satellite navigation including GPS. The current version, WGS 84, defines an Earth-centered...

system (GPS), the ellipsoid and datum WGS 84 it uses has supplanted most others in many applications. The WGS 84 is intended for global use, unlike most...

used by the Chinese State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, and based on WGS-84. It uses an obfuscation algorithm which adds apparently random offsets to...

of the Earth. Examples of global datums include World Geodetic System (WGS 84, also known as EPSG:4326), the default datum used for the Global Positioning...

Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is...

Earth and was widely used around the world until the 1980s when GRS 80 and WGS 84 were established. Many national coordinate systems of Gauss–Krüger are defined...

whole. The following radii are derived from the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS-84) reference ellipsoid. It is an idealized surface, and the Earth measurements...

2° 0′ 5″ W (WGS 84). A geodetic transformation between OSGB 36 and other terrestrial reference systems (like ITRF2000, ETRS89, or WGS 84) can become quite...

83(1986) is based on the GRS 80 spheroid, as was WGS 84, so many older publications indicate no difference. WGS 84 subsequently changed to a slightly less flattened...

particular SRS specification (for example, "Universal Transverse Mercator WGS 84 Zone 16N") comprises a choice of Earth ellipsoid, horizontal datum, map...

that is used for the Global Positioning System (GPS) is the geocentric WGS 84, which currently includes its own ellipsoid definition. Other local datums...

Harpoon missile WGS 84 - The latest revision of the World Geodetic System, a fixed global reference frame for the Earth. The house number of 84 Avenue Foch...

surface. The length of a meridian on a modern ellipsoid model of Earth (WGS 84) has been estimated as 20,003.93 km (12,429.87 mi). The first prime meridian...

other realization of the ITRF. The difference between the latest as of 2006 WGS 84 (frame realisation G1150) and the latest ITRF2000 is only a few centimeters...

have been adopted also for all modern reference ellipsoids. The ellipsoid WGS-84, widely used for mapping and satellite navigation has f close to 1/300 (more...

Positioning System (GPS) operated by the United States Space Force, and of WGS 84 and its two formal versions, the ideal International Terrestrial Reference...

define the use of CRSes other than WGS-84. This is primarily intended to cope with the case of another CRS replacing WGS-84 as the predominantly used one,...

the world, WGS 84). Baidu alleges that adopting BD-09 "protects users' privacy". The Baidu Maps API documentation specifies that "real" (WGS 84) GPS coordinates...

meeting of 1979 has an equatorial radius of 6,378.137 km (3,963.191 mi). The WGS 84 (World Geodetic System 1984) which is a standard for use in cartography...

include waypoints, routes, and tracks: A waypoint (wptType) consists of the WGS 84 (GPS) coordinates of a point and possibly other descriptive information...

establishment of reference meridians for space-based location systems such as WGS-84 (which the GPS relies on) or to the fact that errors gradually crept into...

global datums, such as WGS 84. The standard NIMA TM 8350.2, Appendix D, lists MRE transforms from several local datums to WGS 84, with accuracies of about...

support SRIDs issued by other organizations (such as Esri). EPSG:4326 - WGS 84, latitude/longitude coordinate system based on the Earth's center of mass...

sourced from Google Earth, which makes use of the World Geodetic System (WGS) 84. The northernmost point that Japan claims lies on the disputed island of...

geographic coordinates are adjusted to the World Geodetic System of 1984 (WGS 84). The mean elevation for each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto...

Physical geodesy Planetary geoid Areoid (Mars' geoid) Selenoid (Moon's geoid) "WGS 84, N=M=180 Earth Gravitational Model". NGA: Office of Geomatics. National...

Geographical mile Arabic mile Humerfelt, Sigurd (26 October 2010). "How WGS 84 defines Earth". Archived from the original on 24 April 2011. Retrieved 29...

geodesy, generally it is expressed by its reciprocal. For example, in the WGS 84 spheroid used by today's GPS systems, the reciprocal of the flattening 1...

international ITRS, the European ETRS89 and (with a 0,1 mm rounding error) for WGS 84 used for the American Global Navigation Satellite System (GPS). Geodesy...

spherical harmonics. XGM2020 was also released recently. ETRS89 NAD83 "WGS 84 Earth Gravitational Model". earth-info.nga.mil. Archived from the original...