From Wikipedia, Geocoding uses a description of a location, such as a postal address or place name, to find geographic coordinates. Reverse geocoding, on the other hand, uses geographic coordinates to ...

For those of us with no real navigation experience, encountering longitude and latitude coordinates is usually the result of some hiccup using Google Maps. 40.722272, -73.994194? What? Where the heck ...

Despite advances in 3D GIS, lidar, and complex projections, latitude and longitude coordinates remain at the heart of almost every spatial dataset. They provide a universal, human-readable reference ...

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 parallels, ...

A globe has two fixed points—the North Pole and the South Pole. An imaginary line equator is drawn in such a way that at all points it lies exactly halfway between the two poles. It divides the earth ...