So it’s 33.339060 N, 118.329871 W. Turns out that 33°20’20.6″N 118°19’47.5″W also identifies that spot in Avalon on Catalina, if you prefer degrees/minutes/seconds notation.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the geographical coordinating grid system, the latitude of Kolkata is 22°34′11″N while the longitude of Kolkata is 88°22′11″E. This can also be presented into Decimal numbers like 22.3411°N and ...

This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the Sinusoidal by pulling out the edges of the map to mimic a sphere. The Robinson isn’t as extreme, however, taking the form of a ...

Americans inhabit an intricately mapped world. Type “Burger King” into an online box, and Google will cough up a dozen nearby options, each keyed to a precise latitude and longitude. But ...

Google Maps accepts latitude and longitude in any of the three common formats; use whichever one is most convenient: Degrees, minutes, and seconds (DMS): 34° 7' 8.904'' N 118° 18' 1.296'' W ...