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43-2082: Coordinates : 26°21′30″S 28°12′27″E / 26.35833°S 28.20750°E / -26.35833; 28.20750 [REDACTED] This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Vosloorus" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( December 2023 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Place in Gauteng, South Africa Vosloorus [REDACTED] Aerial view of Vosloorus [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Vosloorus Show map of Gauteng [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Vosloorus Show map of South Africa [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Vosloorus Show map of Africa Coordinates: 26°21′30″S 28°12′27″E / 26.35833°S 28.20750°E / -26.35833; 28.20750 Country South Africa Province Gauteng Municipality Ekurhuleni Main Place Boksburg Area • Total 32.10 km (12.39 sq mi) Population (2011) • Total 163,216 • Density 5,100/km (13,000/sq mi) Racial makeup (2011) • Black African 99.3% • Coloured 0.3% • Indian / Asian 0.2% • White 0.1% • Other 0.1% First languages (2011) • Zulu 46.8% • Sotho 18.0% • Xhosa 8.2% • Northern Sotho 7.3% • Other 19.7% Time zone UTC+2 ( SAST ) Postal code (street) 1475 PO box 1486 Vosloorus
86-543: A prime meridian at the westernmost known land, designated the Fortunate Isles , off the coast of western Africa around the Canary or Cape Verde Islands , and measured north or south of the island of Rhodes off Asia Minor . Ptolemy credited him with the full adoption of longitude and latitude, rather than measuring latitude in terms of the length of the midsummer day. Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography used
129-679: A little before 1300; the text was translated into Latin at Florence by Jacopo d'Angelo around 1407. In 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference , attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich , England as the zero-reference line. The Dominican Republic voted against
172-416: A location often facetiously called Null Island . In order to use the theoretical definitions of latitude, longitude, and height to precisely measure actual locations on the physical earth, a geodetic datum must be used. A horizonal datum is used to precisely measure latitude and longitude, while a vertical datum is used to measure elevation or altitude. Both types of datum bind a mathematical model of
215-538: A longitudinal degree is 111.3 km. At 30° a longitudinal second is 26.76 m, at Greenwich (51°28′38″N) 19.22 m, and at 60° it is 15.42 m. On the WGS 84 spheroid, the length in meters of a degree of latitude at latitude ϕ (that is, the number of meters you would have to travel along a north–south line to move 1 degree in latitude, when at latitude ϕ ), is about The returned measure of meters per degree latitude varies continuously with latitude. Similarly,
258-700: A national cartographical organization include the North American Datum , the European ED50 , and the British OSGB36 . Given a location, the datum provides the latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } and longitude λ {\displaystyle \lambda } . In the United Kingdom there are three common latitude, longitude, and height systems in use. WGS 84 differs at Greenwich from
301-872: A simple translation may be sufficient. Datums may be global, meaning that they represent the whole Earth, or they may be local, meaning that they represent an ellipsoid best-fit to only a portion 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 System , and the International Terrestrial Reference System and Frame (ITRF), used for estimating continental drift and crustal deformation . The distance to Earth's center can be used both for very deep positions and for positions in space. Local datums chosen by
344-503: A year, or 10 m in a century. A weather system high-pressure area can cause a sinking of 5 mm . Scandinavia is rising by 1 cm a year as a result of the melting of the ice sheets of the last ice age , but neighboring Scotland is rising by only 0.2 cm . These changes are insignificant if a local datum is used, but are statistically significant if a global datum is used. On the GRS 80 or WGS 84 spheroid at sea level at
387-586: Is where Earth's equatorial radius a {\displaystyle a} equals 6,378,137 m and tan β = b a tan ϕ {\displaystyle \textstyle {\tan \beta ={\frac {b}{a}}\tan \phi }\,\!} ; for the GRS 80 and WGS 84 spheroids, b a = 0.99664719 {\textstyle {\tfrac {b}{a}}=0.99664719} . ( β {\displaystyle \textstyle {\beta }\,\!}
430-418: Is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude . It is the simplest, oldest and most widely used of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and forms the basis for most others. Although latitude and longitude form a coordinate tuple like a cartesian coordinate system , the geographic coordinate system
473-492: Is a large township situated south of Boksburg and just east of Katlehong in Ekurhuleni , just 30 kilometres south-east of Johannesburg , Gauteng , South Africa . It was established in 1963 when Black Africans were removed from Stirtonville because it was considered by the government too close to a white town. Stirtonville, renamed Reiger Park , has since become home to Boksburg's coloured community. A local authority
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#1732780933810516-744: Is known as the reduced (or parametric) latitude ). Aside from rounding, this is the exact distance along a parallel of latitude; getting the distance along the shortest route will be more work, but those two distances are always within 0.6 m of each other if the two points are one degree of longitude apart. Like any series of multiple-digit numbers, latitude-longitude pairs can be challenging to communicate and remember. Therefore, alternative schemes have been developed for encoding GCS coordinates into alphanumeric strings or words: These are not distinct coordinate systems, only alternative methods for expressing latitude and longitude measurements. South African Standard Time South African Standard Time ( SAST )
559-544: Is not cartesian because the measurements are angles and are not on a planar surface. A full GCS specification, such as those listed in the EPSG and ISO 19111 standards, also includes a choice of geodetic datum (including an Earth ellipsoid ), as different datums will yield different latitude and longitude values for the same location. The invention of a geographic coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene , who composed his now-lost Geography at
602-1091: Is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho . The zone is two hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+02:00 ) and is the same as Central Africa Time . Daylight saving time is not observed in either time zone. Solar noon in this time zone occurs at 30° E in SAST, effectively making Pietermaritzburg at the correct solar noon point, with Johannesburg and Pretoria slightly west at 28° E and Durban slightly east at 31° E . Thus, most of South Africa's population experience true solar noon at approximately 12:00 daily. The western Northern Cape and Western Cape differ, however. Everywhere on land west of 22°30′ E effectively experiences year-round daylight saving time because of its location in true UTC+01:00 but still being in South African Standard Time. Sunrise and sunset are thus relatively late in Cape Town , compared to
645-753: Is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses (often called great circles ), which converge at the North and South Poles. The meridian of the British Royal Observatory in Greenwich , in southeast London, England, is the international prime meridian , although some organizations—such as the French Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière —continue to use other meridians for internal purposes. The prime meridian determines
688-405: Is ultimately calculated from latitude and longitude, it is crucial that they clearly state the datum on which they are based. For example, a UTM coordinate based on WGS84 will be different than a UTM coordinate based on NAD27 for the same location. Converting coordinates from one datum to another requires a datum transformation such as a Helmert transformation , although in certain situations
731-494: The Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. A century later, Hipparchus of Nicaea improved on this system by determining latitude from stellar measurements rather than solar altitude and determining longitude by timings of lunar eclipses , rather than dead reckoning . In the 1st or 2nd century, Marinus of Tyre compiled an extensive gazetteer and mathematically plotted world map using coordinates measured east from
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817-512: The Equator, one latitudinal second measures 30.715 m , one latitudinal minute is 1843 m and one latitudinal degree is 110.6 km. The circles of longitude, meridians, meet at the geographical poles, with the west–east width of a second naturally decreasing as latitude increases. On the Equator at sea level, one longitudinal second measures 30.92 m, a longitudinal minute is 1855 m and
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1118-3138: The Witwatersrand Commandos Alberton Atlas Benoni Boksburg Brakpan Edenvale East Park Germiston Johannesburg East Johannesburg West Kempton Park Krugersdorp Modderfontein Nigel Randburg Roodepoort Sandton Springs Wemmerpan West Park West Rand Special Forces Hunter Group SAAF 4 Squadron SAAF 10 Squadron SAAF [REDACTED] Category [REDACTED] Johannesburg v t e Communities of Ekurhuleni , Gauteng Seat: Germiston Places in Ekurhuleni Alberton Bapsfontein Bedfordview Benoni Boksburg Brakpan Daveyton Dawn Park Duduza Edenvale Elsburg Etwatwa Germiston Isando Katlehong Kempton Park KwaThema Nigel Primrose Reiger Park Springs Tembisa Thokoza Tsakane Vosloorus Wattville [REDACTED] Ekurhuleni within South Africa Suburbs of Kempton Park Allen Grove Aston Manor Birch Acres Birchleigh Birchleigh North Bonaero Park Bredell Cresslawn Croydon Edleen Esther Park Glen Marais Kempton Park West Nimrod Park Norkem Park Pomona Rhodesfield Spartan Terenure Van Riebeeck Park Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vosloorus&oldid=1232736547 " Categories : Townships in Gauteng Populated places in Ekurhuleni Populated places established in 1963 East Rand Hidden categories: Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas Articles needing additional references from December 2023 All articles needing additional references Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Coordinates on Wikidata Geographic coordinate system A geographic coordinate system ( GCS )
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1247-554: The World MK Military Veterans' Association Reform Committee Socialist Party of Azania Other organisations Witwatersrand Native Labour Association Events Jameson Raid Braamfontein explosion Battle of Doornkop Battle of Witpoort Rand Rebellion Empire Exhibition Schlesinger African Air Race 1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike Sophiatown forced removals Congress of
1290-464: The far western Aleutian Islands . The combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The visual grid on a map formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule . The origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km (390 mi) south of Tema , Ghana ,
1333-415: The length in meters of a degree of longitude can be calculated as (Those coefficients can be improved, but as they stand the distance they give is correct within a centimeter.) The formulae both return units of meters per degree. An alternative method to estimate the length of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is to assume a spherical Earth (to get
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1376-481: The motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911. The latitude ϕ of a point on Earth's surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through (or close to) the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on
1419-523: The one used on published maps OSGB36 by approximately 112 m. The military system ED50 , used by NATO , differs from about 120 m to 180 m. Points on the Earth's surface move relative to each other due to continental plate motion, subsidence, and diurnal Earth tidal movement caused by the Moon and the Sun. This daily movement can be as much as a meter. Continental movement can be up to 10 cm
1462-535: The proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres , although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E. This is not to be conflated with the International Date Line , which diverges from it in several places for political and convenience reasons, including between far eastern Russia and
1505-539: The rest of the country. To illustrate, daylight hours for South Africa's western and easternmost major cities: The South African National Time Standard, or 'SA Time' Master Clock, is maintained at the Time and Frequency Laboratory of the National Metrology Institute of South Africa (NMISA) at Pretoria and is distributed publicly by an NTP Internet Time service. Before 8 February 1892, there
1548-430: The same datum will obtain the same location measurement for the same physical location. However, two different datums will usually yield different location measurements for the same physical location, which may appear to differ by as much as several hundred meters; this not because the location has moved, but because the reference system used to measure it has shifted. Because any spatial reference system or map projection
1591-664: The same prime meridian but measured latitude from the Equator instead. After their work was translated into Arabic in the 9th century, Al-Khwārizmī 's Book of the Description of the Earth corrected Marinus' and Ptolemy's errors regarding the length of the Mediterranean Sea , causing medieval Arabic cartography to use a prime meridian around 10° east of Ptolemy's line. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes ' recovery of Ptolemy's text
1634-486: The shape of the earth (usually a reference ellipsoid for a horizontal datum, and a more precise geoid for a vertical datum) to the earth. Traditionally, this binding was created by a network of control points , surveyed locations at which monuments are installed, and were only accurate for a region of the surface of the Earth. Some newer datums are bound to the center of mass of the Earth. This combination of mathematical model and physical binding mean that anyone using
1677-464: The surface of Earth called parallels , as they are parallel to the Equator and to each other. The North Pole is 90° N; the South Pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the Equator , the fundamental plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The Equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres . The longitude λ of a point on Earth's surface
1720-445: The width per minute and second, divide by 60 and 3600, respectively): where Earth's average meridional radius M r {\displaystyle \textstyle {M_{r}}\,\!} is 6,367,449 m . Since the Earth is an oblate spheroid , not spherical, that result can be off by several tenths of a percent; a better approximation of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi }
1763-575: Was adopted, which became the current UTC+02:00 when UTC replaced GMT for most purposes. Prior to 1 March 1903, the Colony of Natal was already using a uniform time supplied by the Natal Observatory . The observatory's local mean time was ( UTC+01:52 ). South Africa observed a daylight saving time of GMT+03:00 ( UTC+03:00 ) between 20 September 1942 to 21 March 1943 and 19 September 1943 to 19 March 1944. South African Standard Time
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1806-726: Was established in 1983 when Vosloorus was given full municipal status. Notable residents [ edit ] Sol Phenduka - radio personality, music DJ and podcaster. Boohle - Amapiano singer-songwriter De Mthuda - record producer and DJ DJ Cleo - house music producer, DJ and recording artist. Moses Sithole - serial killer & rapist David Tlale - fashion designer Fortune Makaringe - soccer player Alfred Ntombela - actor DJ Clock - DJ and producer References [ edit ] ^ "Main Place Vosloorus" . Census 2011 . ^ Harry Mashabela (1988). Townships of
1849-715: Was no uniformity of time in South Africa and local mean time was in use at the various towns. In 1892, a railway conference was held in Bloemfontein and discussed difficulty of working a railway system, in the absence of a uniform time system. The governments of the Orange Free State , Transvaal and the Cape Colony officially adopted a uniform standard time of UTC+01:30 which was defined as mean time 22.5° east of Greenwich. On 1 March 1903 GMT+02:00
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