Question: I have a new dash cam for my car and it adds GPS information to the video footage. Problem is, that’s shown in some cryptic latitude/longitude notation. How can I convert it to locations on ...

The equator is a clear and accurate line around Earth that makes measuring latitude a precise science, but when it came to ...

IN this concise little book the art of navigation is treated from an elementary standpoint. Commencing by explaining the meaning of a few mathematical expressions, including triangles, the author goes ...

Right now if you want to know where you are, your smartphone map will tell you instantly. But these technologies only exist because of the efforts of 18th century geographers, explorers, astronomers ...

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 ...

Jane Squire was really wrong. But so was pretty much everybody else. The Longitude Wars were a sixteenth-century debate over how to determine a given ship’s longitude when at sea. In an era where long ...

The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England – near London – once served as the center of navigation worldwide. It is still considered the "dividing line" between eastern and western time zones and the ...

We use imaginary lines to help locate where a place is in the world. the Arctic Circle (the North Pole) the Antarctic Circle (the South Pole) the Tropic of Cancer the Tropic of Capricorn and the ...