Latitude Maps

What geographical concept does longitude and latitude use?

When you find something on a map using longitude and latitude, what geographical concept(s) are you using?

Public Comments

1. 90 degree angle -line running reference?*
2. well the concepts i learnt in school were: location, distance, scale, distribution, region, movement, spatial association, spatial interaction and spatial change over time using lat&long youre finding the 'location,' which can also be within a 'region,' which can then be at a 'distance' from some other location is that what you mean ?
3. This sounds like a question based on the terminology used by a particular teacher or book in order to help the student remember things by lists. The book/teacher's definitions and terms may not be the same as everyone else's. Lat/Long is a coordinate system method used to find absolute location. Absolute location refers to any method of describing a location by a standardized system, usually mathematical, that can pinpoint a location in terms that will mean the same thing to everyone. The contrast is relative location in which you would describe a location in relation to another feature, such as "west of downtown". your answer is probably location or coordinate system.