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Originally Posted by GinoC
Actually you don't normally use meridians of longitude for distance measurement because the distance between them is continually narrowing to where they all meet at the poles. A minute (1/60th degree) of latitude is equal to a sea mile and changes slightly between the equator and the poles because the earth is an oblate spheroid. The International Nautical Mile is the accepted average value of a sea mile and defined as 1852m. Therefore, a degree would be close to 1.852 X 60 = 111 km.
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I know, but you are playing this game. And the above doesn't hold in that. This game is flat. As said before, in the game the degree grid is rectangular with 120km interval in both directions. The developers of Silent Hunter 3/4 wanted to make their work easy.