The always helpful Tech-Recipes has come up with an ingenius way to find latitude and longitude values for any location using Google Maps. You'll first need to look up an address (duh), but this trick ...

The latitudes and Longitudes are imaginary lines sketched over the globe (the spherical form of the earth’s dummy) to pin point of the exact location on the earth. These are the virtual lines, draw ...

Last week we talked about the imaginary lines of longitude (meridians) and latitude (parallels) that create a grid over the entire surface of the Earth. Today we will focus on the system that has been ...

I’ve been asked to deliver this parcel to my cousin but he lives on an island and doesn’t have an address to send things to, like you or me. It’s not a problem though, because I know a good way to ...

Want to understand why it is that having a precise timepiece (also known as a chronometer) helps you determine your longitude? Play this Shockwave game, get lost on the high seas, and find out.

IN this concise little book the art of navigation is treated from an elementary standpoint. Commencing by explaining the meaning of a few mathematical expressions, including triangles, the author goes ...