The latitude and longitude of a place are known as its co-ordinates.
The latitude and longitude of a place are known as its co-ordinates.
It's an intersection. Some people call it a confluence.
When astronomers are working with geographic maps, they call latitude "latitude"and longitude "longitude".When they're working with celestial maps, they refer to the analogous celestial coordinatesas "Declination" and "Right Ascension".
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Those are called latitude and longitude lines. Latitude lines run east-west, measuring north and south of the Equator. Longitude lines run north-south, measuring east and west of the Prime Meridian. Together, they help determine specific locations on a map.
Well, what 'point' do you want to call the location of Philadelphia, realizing that every point on Earth has a different set of latitude/longitude coordinates, and realizing how many different points there are in Philadelphia ? The center of the Logan Square fountain is located at 39.95794° north latitude 75.17059° west longitude, whereas the west end of Runway-9R at Philadelphia International Airport is located at 39.86083° north latitude 75.27509° west longitude. Other spots around town have somewhat different coordinates. .
There are no parallels of longitude, because longitudinal lines aren't parallel. We call them "meridians". Lines of latitude ARE parallel, and so the expression "45th parallel" would be an accurate description.
Lines of longitude run vertically from the north pole to the south pole. The Prime Meridian (zero longitude) runs through the Greenwich Observatory, London, England. Lines that run parallel to the Equator (zero latitude) are lines of latitude.
Other labels were suggested for those place-coordinates. One after another, the forms were filled out and submitted, and rejected and returned by the authorities. "Temperature", "color", "altitude", "beauty", "fortitude", "voltage", "amplitude", and "steadfastness" were all taken, and it was finally necessary to settle for "latitude" and "longitude", although they were far from the first choices, and everybody in the nautical business would have much preferred words with more pzazz.
The point where the equator crosses the prime meridian is known as the Null Island, with coordinates (0, 0). It is a fictional island and serves as a placeholder for data where coordinates are invalid or not available.
We more or less do, we just call them declination and right ascension instead. The two concepts are mathematically equivalent.
I call it the latitude of any point on the equator.