To find a location on Google Maps by latitude and longitude, just enter the coordinates ... how the industry is transforming the speculative world of science fiction into modern-day real life.

which show the world’s population distributed by longitude and latitude. (Apparently, it’s been kicking around the Internets for a while, but was new to me.) A couple of striking things ...

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 ...

If I want to see where a place is in the world, I just need to look at where the lines cross, and read the numbers. Ah, there he is! Latitude is 32 degrees south, and longitude is 115 degrees east.