Once a month, Life & Arts taps into the many questions received and answered by the staff of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. A sampling: A: The latitude represents an imaginary line drawn ...

A globe has two fixed points—the North Pole and the South Pole. An imaginary line equator is drawn in such a way that at all points it lies exactly halfway between the two poles. It divides the earth ...

The Prime Meridian is the imaginary line running between the North and South Poles that's used to indicate 0° longitude. It passes through Greenwich in southeast London, and is therefore sometimes ...

A series of lines crisscrosses the world's maps and globes. The 180 horizontal latitude lines, and 360 vertical lines that mark east and west longitude, are vital to navigators. But to everybody else ...

Right now, you’re within 49 miles of a confluence, an arbitrary point on Earth where an imaginary line of latitude intersects with an imaginary line of longitude. And if you hop over there and take a ...