{"id":105,"date":"2020-11-23T16:38:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/?p=105"},"modified":"2020-11-23T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:40:02","slug":"measurement-of-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/2020\/11\/23\/measurement-of-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Measurement of direction &#8211; three figure notation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Three figure notation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All bearings and headings (courses) are expressed in three figures.  For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>North is expressed as 000\u00b0.<\/li>\n<li>South is expressed as 180\u00b0.<\/li>\n<li>North-west is expressed as 045\u00b0.<\/li>\n<li>Five degrees to the right of north is expressed as 005\u00b0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reason for this is to avoid confusion with any other angular measurement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three figure notation. All bearings and headings (courses) are expressed in three figures. For example: North is expressed as 000\u00b0. South is expressed as 180\u00b0. North-west is expressed as 045\u00b0. Five degrees to the right of north is expressed as 005\u00b0. The reason for this is to avoid confusion with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-1-navigation","category-10-1-4-measurement-of-direction","category-10-1-4-1-three-figure-notation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}