I’ve been asked to deliver this parcel to my cousin but he lives on an island and doesn’t have an address to send things to, like you or me. It’s not a problem though, because I know a good way to ...

How do latitude and longitude lines work? asks a reader.Think of wrapping the Earth in a planet-sized sheet of sticky graph paper. That's how it might look if we could actually see lines of latitude ...

GPS coordinates identify the location the satellites have triangulated for you Most of us never need to use numerical GPS coordinates to take advantage of the many location-based services that are ...

Technology changes the rules of the game, and surveying may be more in its crosshairs than the profession will admit Maps have existed for centuries. The lines on maps indicating the boundaries of ...

Once you've found the North Star it's simple to determine your latitude. 1. First, locate the Big Dipper, Ursa Major (called The Plough in the U.K.). 2. Find the two stars that make up the far end of ...

Once called the Prime Meridian of the World, the invisible line running north to south that divides the world into Eastern and Western hemispheres passed through the Airy Transit Circle — a ...