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Can the distance between two points be found if longitude and latitude are known for both points?
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∙ 15y ago
according to that data you mark both places and draw a straigh line, then measure the line and compare it to the distances given in the map legend.
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What is the distance of longitude at the equator and the poles?
The equator is a line made of points at zero latitude and every longitude, andevery longitude converges (comes together) at the poles..
Are Lines of longitude and latitude are used for locating certain points on the globe?
Yes. The intersection of a line of longitude and a line of latitude is a point on the globe, and that point is identified by the longitude and latitude of those lines.
What is meant by longitude latitude and meridian?
-- Longitude is the angle east or west between a point on the Earth's surface and the Prime Meridian. -- Latitude is the angle north or south between a point and the equator. -- A meridian is an imaginary line between the north and south poles and through all the points on Earth that have the same one single longitude.
Are latitude lines called meridian?
Each 'meridian' is a line of constant longitude.
What do latitude and longitude lines represent?
-- Each meridian ( 'line' ) of longitude represents all of the infinite number of points on the Earth's surface that have that one specific longitude. -- Each parallel ( 'line' ) of latitude represents all of the infinite number of points on the Earth's surface that have that one specific latitude.
Can you use the distance formula to find the distance between two points on a map?
yes you can. It will represent longitude and latitude. Take the longitude and latitude from the first point and from the second one place the values in the formula you get the distance.
When coordinates of two geographical points are known and we calculate the distance between them Is the calculated distance the horizontal distance or the actual distance?
The horizontal distance. Points of latitude and longitude can't account for elevation.
What is the distance of longitude at the equator and the poles?
The equator is a line made of points at zero latitude and every longitude, andevery longitude converges (comes together) at the poles..
What website allows you to enter the longitude and latitude for two points on the globe to know the distance between them?
It can be done with Daft Logic. See the related link below.
What is the distance between Miami Florida and 10 degrees south latitude?
Miami is about 25 degrees north. Assuming the points are in the same longitude, that's about 2421 miles.
What is the distance between eighty degrees and ninety degrees west?
An absolute distance is impossible to calculate between points of different longitude without also knowing latitude. Possible answers will be in the range 0 km - ~20,003.93 km
Is London longitude or latitude?
Both. every place on earth has both longitude i.e. a point between North and south and latitude a point on a line that points in a westerly and easterly direction.
Is Kansas a longitude or latitude?
Every point on Earth has both a latitude and a longitude.Any point whose latitude is anything between 37° and 40° North,and whose longitude is anything between 95.3° and 102° West,is somewhere in Kansas.
Is the Prime Meridian a latitude or longitude line?
The Prime Meridian is a longitude line, made up of all the points that have zero longitude and every latitude.
What longitude and latitude is the prime meridian?
The Prime Meridian is a line made up of all the points on Earth that have zero longitude. There is one of those points at every possible latitude.
How many minutes is 16.7 miles?
You need to specify the latitude and longitude of the end points and whether you want minutes of latitude or of longitude.
Where do longitude and latitude lines meet?
Every point on Earth has a latitude and a longitude. No two points have the same set of two numbers.
