Question

How does latitudes and longitude are helpful in aviation and marine transportation

Answer 1

Latitudes and Longitudes which are also known as the Geographical coordinates, play an important role in sea and air navigation. With the geographic coordinates, one can perfectly pinpoint a location in any part of the world using a reference location. Usually, Greenwich prime Meridian is used as a reference location to locate any geographical coordinates.  

There are four standards that are used to represent the geographical coordinates. They are

• Simple Decimal Standard
• Decimal Degrees
• Degrees and decimal Minutes
• Degrees, Minutes and Seconds.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Latitudes:

• All latitude lines are parallel. Their number is 180 and is displayed in degrees. The distance between the two latitudes is 111 km. it occurs. The equatorial circle represents the latitude of 0 degrees. All latitudes north of the equator are north latitudes and south latitudes are called southern latitudes.
• The equator is the largest of the latitudes drawn on the Earth. Its length is 40069 km. Transitional.

Longitudes:

• The angular head of a place is in the northwest (0 ° Greenwich) and west. The line passing through the Greenwich location of England is called 0 ° longitude or Greenwich line. All longitude up to 180 ° east longitude and green longitude westward from Greenwich longitude are called western longitude.
• The Earth rotates 360 ° longitude in 24 hours. Therefore the rotation of the Earth is 15 degrees longitude per hour or one longitude per 4 minutes.

This way, latitudes, and longitude are helpful in aviation and marine transportation.