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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...