The historian and cartography Bill Rankin, who maintains the blog Radical Cartography, created the fascinating histograms above, which show the world’s population distributed by longitude and ...

Most of us live 27 degrees north of the equator, ... Below are two such maps, by Bill Rankin, that overlay population of the world with the latitude and longitude at which people live.

Latitude is a measurement of the distance north or south of the equator, with the North Pole being 90 degrees north, and the South Pole being, you guessed it, 90 degrees south. Longitude measures ...

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 ...

Map making has been around for as long as there have been explorers. For more accurate maps and the safety of explorers, a coordinate system was first proposed by the Greek astronomer, Hipparchus ...

For longitude, you will have to subtract the longitude of your current location from 180°. In the case of New York City again, you would subtract 74.0059° W from 180°, leaving you with 105.9941°E.

Key concepts Earth Science Maps Cartography Introduction Have you ever spent time looking at a world map and imagined traveling to distant locations? Maybe you see yourself drawing your own map of ...

"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. You may like ...

A hiker and outdoorsman, Mr. Thomas as a child yearned for a world where nature ruled supreme. His map represents the “idealistic planet that I wanted,” Mr. Thomas, 34, said.