Latitude and Longitude: Your Global Address

Every location on earth has a global address. Because the address is in numbers, people can communicate about location no matter what language they might speak. A global address is given as two numbers called coordinates. The two numbers are a location's latitude number and its longitude number ("Lat/Long").

With such a global address system, we can identify the location of any place on the globe.

For example, Hungary is located at 47.1625° N, 19.5033° E and Budapest is located at 47° 29' 52.4868'' N, 19° 2' 24.8496'' E

Notice that although they are an area, a surface, they are identified by a point. There is a national longitude/latitude map at Maps of World. [1]⁠

If you want to find the longitude/latitude of your location, search by latitude & longitude in Google Maps. [5]⁠

If you want to find the GPS coordinates of an address or a place, simply use a latitude and longitude finder. [6]⁠

Managing the complexities of place/location with geo-mapping

In defining the new field of spatial history, Richard White makes the case that mapping can be more than a corollary to a historical narrative, it “is a means of doing research; it generates questions that might otherwise go unasked, it reveals historical relations that might otherwise go unnoticed, and it undermines, or substantiates, stories upon which we build our own versions of the past.” [7]

At this moment, it appears that Stanford University’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis [8]⁠ has a wide variety of projects. Accordingly, these are top 3 ways Geo Maps are used: