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st_richardson
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...was Latitudes were parallel like the rungs of a latter.
 
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Trailerman
I Never Find Anything
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quote:
Originally posted by sparc77:
I suppose this would be a bad time to point out that the distance between lines of longitude gets less and less as latitude increases (or decreases) toward the poles.

Not on a Mercator projection. Tounge
 
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Rebel
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This is a US Army illustration, from their map reading Field Manual. Not sure if it helps though.


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Trailerman
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A picture is worth a thousand posts.... Nods I think I'll clip it out and paste to the back of my GPSr.
 
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