Why are latitude and longitude important on maps?

Answer 1

Those numbers are used by soldiers, sailors, pilots, and drivers, for two major purposes:

1). To be able to explain exactly where they are in the world, when they phone in

to the office.

2). To know which way to steer when the office calls and tells them where to go to.

Answer 2

Knowing your latitude and longitude makes all kinds of things a lot easier, such as

-- knowing where you are

-- knowing how far you traveled today

-- knowing the right direction to go from where you are now to your destination

-- knowing how far you still have to go before you get there

-- telling people where you are if you need them to come out and rescue you.

Answer 3

so sailors dont have a map with them they only have latitude and longtiude

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Sailors have plenty of maps with them. But out in the middle of the ocean,

the map is pretty boring because it looks like the surface of a swimming pool

for a thousand miles in every direction. So the map doesn't do you much good

out there, and you need a better way to figure out where you are and where

you're going.

Answer 4

Because there are no street signs, route markers, corners, intersections,

junctions, or addresses at sea, but they still need some way to figure out

where they are, where they're going, and which way to go to get from here

to there.

Answer 5

They might want to figure out where they are.

Answer 6

it helps them find their way around the ocean

Answer 7

If the sailors were on a ship, and they were in the Bahamas, and they wanted to go to Austraila, they might use latitude and longitude to determine where and how to get there.

Answer 8

Using latitude and longitude - you can pinpoint any location on Earth. Every location is unique.