what are the difference about latitude and longitudes
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The line which forms horizontal way from left to right is called latitude.
The line which forms vertical way from up to down is called longitude.
The line which forms vertical way from up to down is called longitude.
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What is the difference between latitude, longitude and altitude?
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Xavier Daull, studied at National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts , France
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Originally Answered: What is the difference between latitude and longitude?
Longitude and latitude are like X/Y coordinates (absciss, ordinate) but on the Earth sphere. So any place on Earth can be pinpointed using its latitude (North/South value) and longitude (West/East value) coordinates.
A point's coordinate is measured in degrees because it is the angle betwheen the agreed reference (Equator for latitude / Greenwich for longitude) and this point, viewed from the center of Earth.

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Latitude: it is the North/South value of a point on Earth. Any point on the Equator's circle is of latitude 0°, the top north is 90° North, the top south is 90° South. Circles parallels to the Equator are of the same latitude.
Longitude: it is the West/East value of a point on Earth. Longitudes are lines going from south pole to north pole. Greenwich is on longitude 0° and any point on the line going from North pole to the South pole via Greenwich is on longitude 0°.
Latitudes and longitudes are perpandicular each other on the famous Mercator projection (an earth projection is a way of drawing a sphere on a flat map):

Eiffel tour latitude is 48° North (from Equator) and its longitude is 02° East (from Greenwich). To be more accurate we usually use seconds (') and minutes ('') so Eiffel tour is: 48° 51' 30" North, 02° 17' 40" East.
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Originally Answered: What is the difference between latitude and longitude?
Latitudes also known as parallels of latitude and meridians also known as meridians of longitude are the imaginary lines that run on the earth's surface which are used to find the exact location of a place on the globe (or map) and it's time zone.
Parallels of latitude:
These lines circle the earth from north pole and south pole.Equator is the longest latitude which divides the earth between northern hemisphere and southern hemispher. These are measured in degrees.
Equator is latitude of 0°. The latitudes in the north area numbered with °N with it. The latitudes in the south are numbered with °S with it. Latitudes are from 0° to 90° N and 0° to 90°S. Latitudes are not of the same length.
Other important latitudes are Tropic of cancer at 23.5°N, Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5°S,Article circle at 66.5°N, Antarctic circle 66.5°S, North pole 90°N, South pole at 90°S.
Meridians of longitude:
These lines are drawn joining north pole and south pole. Unlike latitudes, longitudes are of same length.
These are measured in °W or°E.
Prime meridian is the most important longitude at 0°. This longitude divides the earth in eastern hemisphere and western hemisphere.
The lines lying on the east of prime meridian are named as °E and those to the west of prime meridian are measured as °W. There are 360 longitudes. But 180°E and 180°W are not the same lines.
Longitudes along with helping in finding location also helps to know the time zone. For each meridian you travel, the time differs by 4 minutes.
So, once you know the latitude and longitude of a place you can easily locate it on globe or map!
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Latitude and Longitude is nothing but a coordinate system. Let's discuss one by one.
What is coordinate system.
Location of an object can't be decided unless we take any reference point.Suppose two person stand on a ground we can't say what is their position if we don't measure distance from any other point.
Basically there are two type of coordinate system first one 2D like on a piece of paper we draw some point.

Here any point is defined as position from X-axis and Y-axis.
And other one is 3D like a point inside a room

But what if we want to get location of any object on Earth's surface.
We can't use 2D or 3D Co-ordinate system because earth is neither a flat nor in a cubical shape.
Earth is a spherical in shape, so in order to get a position on earth we have find a different co-ordinate system.
In this geographical co-ordinate system X-axis will replace Latitude and Y-axis will replace Longitude.
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Xavier Daull, studied at National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts , France
Answered Dec 21, 2015
Originally Answered: What is the difference between latitude and longitude?
Longitude and latitude are like X/Y coordinates (absciss, ordinate) but on the Earth sphere. So any place on Earth can be pinpointed using its latitude (North/South value) and longitude (West/East value) coordinates.
A point's coordinate is measured in degrees because it is the angle betwheen the agreed reference (Equator for latitude / Greenwich for longitude) and this point, viewed from the center of Earth.

http://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp...
Latitude: it is the North/South value of a point on Earth. Any point on the Equator's circle is of latitude 0°, the top north is 90° North, the top south is 90° South. Circles parallels to the Equator are of the same latitude.
Longitude: it is the West/East value of a point on Earth. Longitudes are lines going from south pole to north pole. Greenwich is on longitude 0° and any point on the line going from North pole to the South pole via Greenwich is on longitude 0°.
Latitudes and longitudes are perpandicular each other on the famous Mercator projection (an earth projection is a way of drawing a sphere on a flat map):

Eiffel tour latitude is 48° North (from Equator) and its longitude is 02° East (from Greenwich). To be more accurate we usually use seconds (') and minutes ('') so Eiffel tour is: 48° 51' 30" North, 02° 17' 40" East.
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Updated Dec 13, 2015
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Originally Answered: What is the difference between latitude and longitude?
Latitudes also known as parallels of latitude and meridians also known as meridians of longitude are the imaginary lines that run on the earth's surface which are used to find the exact location of a place on the globe (or map) and it's time zone.
Parallels of latitude:
These lines circle the earth from north pole and south pole.Equator is the longest latitude which divides the earth between northern hemisphere and southern hemispher. These are measured in degrees.
Equator is latitude of 0°. The latitudes in the north area numbered with °N with it. The latitudes in the south are numbered with °S with it. Latitudes are from 0° to 90° N and 0° to 90°S. Latitudes are not of the same length.
Other important latitudes are Tropic of cancer at 23.5°N, Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5°S,Article circle at 66.5°N, Antarctic circle 66.5°S, North pole 90°N, South pole at 90°S.
Meridians of longitude:
These lines are drawn joining north pole and south pole. Unlike latitudes, longitudes are of same length.
These are measured in °W or°E.
Prime meridian is the most important longitude at 0°. This longitude divides the earth in eastern hemisphere and western hemisphere.
The lines lying on the east of prime meridian are named as °E and those to the west of prime meridian are measured as °W. There are 360 longitudes. But 180°E and 180°W are not the same lines.
Longitudes along with helping in finding location also helps to know the time zone. For each meridian you travel, the time differs by 4 minutes.
So, once you know the latitude and longitude of a place you can easily locate it on globe or map!
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Neeraj Patralekh, Another Engineer, Quora lover
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Latitude and Longitude is nothing but a coordinate system. Let's discuss one by one.
What is coordinate system.
Location of an object can't be decided unless we take any reference point.Suppose two person stand on a ground we can't say what is their position if we don't measure distance from any other point.
Basically there are two type of coordinate system first one 2D like on a piece of paper we draw some point.

Here any point is defined as position from X-axis and Y-axis.
And other one is 3D like a point inside a room

But what if we want to get location of any object on Earth's surface.
We can't use 2D or 3D Co-ordinate system because earth is neither a flat nor in a cubical shape.
Earth is a spherical in shape, so in order to get a position on earth we have find a different co-ordinate system.
In this geographical co-ordinate system X-axis will replace Latitude and Y-axis will replace Longitude.
.
I hope it help you..
Please mark me brainlist
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