Latitude and Longitude
These are two words I often forget. Today, I had a change to use them. I will write a post so I won't forget.
Latitude and longitude are coordinates giving a location on the earth.
Latitude gives a north-south position, whereas a longitude gives a west-south position.
If we draw grids with latitude and longitude on the earth and say that the south to north direction is the vertical direction, latitude lines are given by vertical ones, and longitude lines run horizontally.
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Latitude and Longitude
These are two words I often forget. Today, I had a change chance to use them. I will write a post so I won't forget.
Latitude and longitude are coordinates giving a location on the earth.
Latitude gives a north-south position, whereas a longitude gives a west-south east position.
If we draw grids with latitude and longitude on the earth and say that the south to north direction is the vertical direction, latitude lines are given by vertical ones, and longitude lines run horizontally lines of latttude run horizontally, and lines of longitude run vertically.
The way I remember is that "latitude" sounds like ladder, and lines of latitude run horizontally in parallel, like rungs on a ladder.
Lines of LONGitude are long because each one of them extends all the way from the south pole to the north pole.
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