Summary:
- Geologists, hikers, and many other people need to be able to say where they are.
- To describe your location, you could use a coordinate system.
- Most maps use a grid of lines to help you to find your location.
- Using this system you can define your location by two numbers, latitude and longitude.
- Longitude tells you how far you are east or west from the Prime Meridian.
- Latitude is also measured in degrees, which are subdivided into minutes and seconds.
- If you know the latitude andLongitude of a place, you can find it on a map.