For those of us with no real navigation experience, encountering longitude and latitude coordinates is usually the result of some hiccup using Google ...

The historian and cartography Bill Rankin, who maintains the blog Radical Cartography, created the fascinating histograms above, which show the world’s population distributed by longitude and ...

A team of scientists is due to recalculate Australia's latitude and longitude coordinates, which are currently out by more than 1.5 metres.