Question

what is the difference longitude and latitude?

Answer 1

longitude:it is the west/east value of a point on earth.longitude are lines going from south pole to north pole.
latitude:the imaginary lines of latitude run around the earth from east to west

Answer 2

Both longitude and latitude are angles measured with the center of the earth as an origin. A longitude is an angle from the prime merdian, measured to the east (longitudes to the west are negative). Latitudes measure an angle up from the equator (latitudes to the south are negative)