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I've been doing a lot of geo-related work lately and confounding latitude and longitude was a regular source of logic errors. Only useful for North America, but
by rdrimmie 16y ago
I've been doing a lot of geo-related work lately and confounding latitude and longitude was a regular source of logic errors. Only useful for North America, but my mnemonic for lat/lng is "latitude has a positive attitude". It doesn't necessarily help when identifying which is which on a map, but when using them for calculating proximity or drawing polygons on a map it works every time.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoThe lines of longitude are always long, whereas the parallels of latitude can be shorter, and are always "parallel" (in some sense).