Longitude’s highly customizable views of monitored systems can show all the systems or, based on criteria you set up, specific groups of servers and devices by department, region or other filter.

The same goes for latitude and longitude lines on maps and globes. The public generally accepts the various delineations on maps as being somewhat accurate with an unwritten level of trust in those ...

"Every world map is distorted in some respect," Matthew Edney, a professor of geography and the history of cartography at the University of Southern Maine, told Live Science in an email.

Google's new location-tracking service for smart phones should make it easy to keep an eye on your workers, but its powers may be limited.