Many companies indicate in their contacts, along with the address, the exact geographic coordinates of their location. Coordinates help determine the location, regardless of whether the provider of electronic maps knows exactly where the address of the object is. The ability to find a point by coordinates is also available on Yandex Maps.
What do the numbers in coordinates mean
On Yandex Maps, geographic coordinates are recognized in degrees, represented as decimal fractions. At the same time, several more formats for recording coordinates are used in the world, for example, in degrees, minutes and seconds.
Coordinates are a pair of numbers that define the location of an object on the map.
The first digit in the format accepted on Yandex Maps is the latitude, or the angle between the local direction of the zenith (that is, the direction pointing directly up above a specific place) and the plane of the equator. North latitude is designated by the letter N, south latitude by the letter S.
The second digit is the longitude, or the angle between the plane of the meridian (the line of the section of the surface of the globe by the plane passing through a given point and the axis of rotation of the Earth) and the plane of the initial zero (Greenwich) meridian. Longitudes from 0 ° to 180 ° east of the prime meridian are called eastern (E), west - western (W).
Entering coordinates on Yandex Maps
Open your browser and type maps.yandex.ru in the address bar, or open the Yandex Maps application on your smartphone or tablet. Enter the coordinates in the search box, for example: 55.751710, 37.617019 - then click "Find". In the application, to call the search bar, you must first click on the magnifying glass icon (usually located at the bottom of the screen). Please note that the format for entering coordinates should be exactly the following: first latitude, then longitude; the whole part of the coordinates is separated from the fractional part by a point; numbers do not contain spaces; latitude and longitude are separated by a comma.
After clicking on the "Find" button, the marker on the map will move to the point described by the coordinates - now you can build a route.
To the left of the map, the address corresponding to the coordinates will be displayed, as well as their alternative representation - with degrees, minutes and seconds. In our case, it will look like this:
Latitude: 55 ° 45′6.16 ″ N (55.75171)
Longitude: 37 ° 37′1.27 ″ E (37.617019)
If you enter the coordinates in the wrong sequence - for example, first longitude and then latitude (some navigators and other electronic cartographic services work with data in exactly this sequence) - you can quickly change the order of numbers on Yandex Maps. To do this, click on the "Swap" link under the full description of the coordinates, and the marker will move to the correct point.
