Latitude

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Latitude of a campus building is a measurement of the angular distance the building's location north of the equator expressed in decimal degrees.

Metadata
Data Custodian
Academic and Centralized Scheduling
Data Source
Source System:CMS - SA
Source Table Name:N/A
Source Field Name:N/A
Census Process:N/A
Logical Transformation / Calculation
N/A
Dataset Folder and Field Name
Dataset Folder:Facility
Field Name:Latitude

A building's latitude combined with longitude enables geovisualization of the building's location on map visualizations of our campus data.

Business Rules

Only buildings on the main campus of Cal State Monterey Bay have latitude and longitude populated. Other locations will not appear on map geovisualizations in Campus Data Warehouse.

Examples

  • 018-Heron Hall, Latitude: 36.6542503; Longitude: -121.7998426
  • 508-Tanimura & Antle Library, Latitude: 36.6523608; Longitude: -121.7962086

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