The National Geodetic Survey has spent years building a replacement for the reference system that fixes every published position in the country. New geodetic-control submissions into the old system ...

Shape of Night' by Inunote is an app that draws where it is currently day and where it is night on Earth on a world map. Two lines are drawn on the map as the boundary between day and night. These are ...

Prologue: Sunny at home, torrential rain at the destinationFor example, try imagining a scene like this.You board a train in ...

How the world map changed over centuries, why Mercator makes Greenland look huge, why Asia is the largest continent, how map projections work and the truth behind common world map myths.

When you look at a flight tracker, you may wonder where all of that data actually comes from. This article looks into exactly ...

The meaning of an astrocartography line is traditionally interpreted through the planet and chart angle represented by the ...

Letters: The transverse Mercator projection was created for European sailors – and it worked for their world, writes Paul ...

The Mercator projection is the map widely used across the globe but inaccurately depicts the sizes of countries and continents The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with ...

Latitude lines circle the Earth from east to west. They are also called parallels, because they are aligned to one another and never intersect. They allow us to determine our position north or south ...

Lines of longitude, also called meridians, are imaginary lines that divide the Earth. They run north to south from pole to pole, but they measure the distance east or west. Longitude is measured in ...

Textron Aviation’s Cessna Citation Latitude is a business jet that is produced by the Wichita, Kansas-based manufacturer. Announced on Oct. 10, 2011, at the National Business Aviation Association ...

The Cessna Citation Longitude is a super-midsize business jet produced by Wichita, Kansas-based Textron Aviation. Unveiled at the 2012 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE), the ...