Do you ever read an atlas for pleasure? If you go to a new city, can you imagine not knowing which way is north? Is it hard for you to imagine life without a map? Then you might be a maphead, says ...

To pinpoint your position on a map of the world you need to work out your co-ordinates, known as latitude and longitude. Latitude is your position north or south of the Equator. Lines, or parallels, ...

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 ...

You can find a location on Google Maps by latitude and longitude or find a specific location's coordinates on a computer or ...

Temperatures drop the further an area is from the Equator due to the curvature of the Earth. In areas closer to the poles, sunlight has a larger area of atmosphere to pass through and loses more ...

Then you might be a maphead, says trivia buff Ken Jennings. "If there's a map on the wall of the room, people like us just cannot turn away," he tells Fresh Air's Dave Davies. "There's just something ...