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 ...

After creating a global map of historical imagery density last week, we have been experimenting with higher resolution versions for a small area. High resolution historical imagery density Latitude 0° ...

One of the most unusual cartographic hobbies of the modern GPS era is run by the Degree Confluence Project. These modern-day Magellans want to visit every place in the world where a line of latitude ...

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, ...

To find a location on Google Maps by latitude and longitude, just enter the coordinates in the search box. You can find a location's latitude and longitude on a computer using a right-click; on a ...

Right now, you’re within 49 miles of a confluence, an arbitrary point on Earth where an imaginary line of latitude intersects with an imaginary line of longitude. And if you hop over there and take a ...

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 ...

Millions of years ago, the land you’re currently sitting on was located at a completely different latitude. Your backyard crossed thousands of miles to reach its particular point on the planet, and ...