For those of us with no real navigation experience, encountering longitude and latitude coordinates is usually the result of some hiccup using Google Maps. 40.722272, -73.994194? What? Where the heck ...

We use imaginary lines to help locate where a place is in the world. the Arctic Circle (the North Pole) the Antarctic Circle (the South Pole) the Tropic of Cancer the Tropic of Capricorn and the ...

To pinpoint your position on a map of the world you need to work out your co-ordinates, known as latitude and longitude. Latitude is your position north or south of the Equator. Lines, or parallels, ...

Explains the concepts of latitude and longitude, which are used to locate places on Earth. It describes how latitude is measured in degrees north or south of the equator and how longitude is measured ...

The historian and cartography Bill Rankin, who maintains the blog Radical Cartography, created the fascinating histograms above, which show the world’s population distributed by longitude and latitude ...

Members of the La Jolla Cluster Association, which represents the five La Jolla public schools in the San Diego Unified School District, discussed refocusing their vision and asking the district for ...

LATITUDE and longitude may be determined on shore with considerable accuracy by means of an ordinary photographic camera; and this method will, I think, prove useful for several reasons. The ...

Someone had to conceive the idea of latitude and longitude; someone else had to invent tools to measure distances from ...

Spine title: Maury's navigation. Edition statement from Preface to the third edition, p. [vi]. Tables XIX and XX and Index (p. [297]-336) are bound after Tables I-XVIII (184 p. inserted after p. [296] ...