What is northing and easting?

Question

What is northing and easting?

Answer 1

Geographic Cartesian Coordinates for a point, pretty much an x and y axis

Easting refers to the Eastward measured distance (or the x-coordinate), while northing refers to the Northward measured distance (or the y-coordinate).

Answer 2

Northing is latitude and easting is longitude.

Answer 3

northing and easting is how coordinates intersect. Just like latitude and longitude. imagine you have a line going north/south and lines going east/west and the intersection and even given area is the coordinate northing - how ever many units of measurement and easting how ever many units

Answer 4

The terms easting and northing are geographic Cartesian coordinates for a point. Easting refers to the Eastward measured distance (or the x-coordinate), while northing refers to the Northward measured distance (or the y-coordinate). The orthogonal coordinate pair are commonly measured in metres from a horizontal datum. This simple cartographic convention comes from a methodology for determining coordinates and areas, known as the method of latitudes and departures.

When using the Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system, northing is the distance to the equator, while easting is the distance to the "False easting", which is uniquely defined in each UTM zone.

The term northing has also been used by explorers to describe a general progress toward the North Pole. Isaac Israel Hayes used this term in a 1861 address to the New-York Geographical and Statistical Society saying, "The want of steam power curtailed my northing."[1]

Answer 5

nothing