US latitude, longitude and elevation are about to change by up to 4 metres: Why America is replacing its 40-year-old GPS reference system

The US is preparing to replace its decades-old latitude, longitude and elevation reference systems, NAD 83 and NAVD 88. The ...

The United States is replacing every official latitude, longitude, and height: its coordinates will shift by four meters and its millions of markers will no longer be valid

Every move made by the United States is analyzed in detail. Well, recently, the North American country would be replacing every official latitude, longitude, and height, that is, its coordinates will ...
NOAA

What is latitude?

Latitude lines start at the equator (0 degrees latitude) and run east and west, parallel to the equator. Lines of latitude are measured in degrees north or south of the equator to 90 degrees at the ...
PBS

The Earth: Long and Lat

Do you know your latitude and longitude? The Earth is divided by imaginary lines: latitudes and longitudes. They were created to help us accurately locate where we are on the planet and where we want ...