The significance of measuring longitude and latitude can't be undermined as its importance is great and far reaching. Longitude gives an east-west direction of a location in relation to Greenwich, the ...

To do that, I’ll use what’s called latitude and longitude.Lines of latitude run ... The line going through London, called Greenwich Meridian, is the starting point at zero degrees.

CHILLICOTHE — While in everyday life most people use street addresses to find where they are going each location also has a unique latitude ... is west of the prime meridian.