The always helpful Tech-Recipes has come up with an ingenius way to find latitude and longitude values for any location using Google Maps. You'll first need to look up an address (duh), but this trick ...

Identifying the latitude and longitude for a point of interest helps you pinpoint its exact location on the planet using a geographic coordinate system. You can find a point in Google Maps by ...

Question: I have a new dash cam for my car and it adds GPS information to the video footage. Problem is, that’s shown in some cryptic latitude/longitude notation. How can I convert it to locations on ...

When you talk about location, name of city, state or country as a location descriptor with common landmark, but have you wonder how places are located on the globe. It is imaginary lines such as ...

Last week we talked about the imaginary lines of longitude (meridians) and latitude (parallels) that create a grid over the entire surface of the Earth. Today we will focus on the system that has been ...

Greetings, Secret Agent Math! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out where you are on Earth relative to the equator. Why might you need to be able to figure this out? Who knows ...

Once a month, Life & Arts taps into the many questions received and answered by the staff of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. A sampling: A: The latitude represents an imaginary line drawn ...

IN this concise little book the art of navigation is treated from an elementary standpoint. Commencing by explaining the meaning of a few mathematical expressions, including triangles, the author goes ...

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 ...