A series of lines crisscrosses the world's maps and globes. The 180 horizontal latitude lines, and 360 vertical lines that mark east and west longitude, are vital to navigators.

I've seen lots of tornado maps and charts over the years, but these are the first ones I've seen that show the frequency of U.S. tornadoes by latitude and longitude lines.

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?

Google Maps accepts latitude and longitude in any of the three common formats; use whichever one is most convenient: Degrees, minutes, and seconds (DMS): 34° 7' 8.904'' N 118° 18' 1.296'' W ...

Around 2,200 years ago, Greek scientist Hipparchus first devised a grid to map the entire planet. Today's lines of latitude and longitude are not in exactly the same places as on the ancient maps ...

To do that, I’ll use what’s called latitude and longitude.Lines of latitude run around the Earth like imaginary hoops and have numbers to show how many degrees north or south they are from the ...