Refering to 0° of longitude/latitude in a range

What is the reference line 0 for longitude called?

The prime meridian

The prime meridian is the line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around Earth. The prime meridian is arbitrary, meaning it could be chosen to be anywhere.

What is the range of longitude latitude?

Latitude is the angular measurement of a location expressed in degrees north or south of the equator, ranging from 0° at the equator to 90°N or 90°S at the poles. Lines of longitude (also called meridians) run in a north-south direction from pole to pole.
 

What does latitude range from 0 to?

Latitude ranges from 0 degrees at the Equator (a line that marks the center of the Earth) to 90 degrees at the poles. Lines of constant latitude run east-west around the Earth.

What is another name for 0 latitude?

The Equator is the line of 0 degrees latitude.
 

What are 0 longitude passes through?

Greenwich meridian, also called prime meridian, an imaginary line, last established in 1851, that was used to indicate 0° longitude. It passes through Greenwich, a borough of London, and terminates at the North and South poles.
 

How many longitudes are there write their range?

There are 360 degrees of longitude (+180° eastward and −180° westward.). The longitude line of 0 degrees is known as the Prime Meridian and it divides the world into the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere.
 

What distance is 1 degree of longitude?

288,200 feet

One-degree of longitude equals 288,200 feet (54.6 miles), one minute equals 4,800 feet (0.91 mile), and one second equals 80 feet.

What do you call a location based using latitude and longitude?

Absolute Location describes precise locations of a place based on a fixed point on earth. The most common way to identify a location is by using coordinates such as latitude and longitude.

Why latitude has 90 and 180 longitude?

Latitude lines are complete circles, with the equator at 0° and the pole at 90°. The North Pole and South Pole are 180° apart, on a line running from the center of the Earth to both poles, so there are 180 latitude lines, with the North Pole and South Pole a circle of diameter 0, which is to say, a point.

Does longitude have 40 degrees?

The meridian 40° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

What is minimum longitude?

Valid longitudes are from -180 to 180 degrees. Latitudes are supposed to be from -90 degrees to 90 degrees, but areas very near to the poles are not indexable. So exact limits, as specified by EPSG:900913 / EPSG:3785 / OSGEO:41001 are the following: Valid longitudes are from -180 to 180 degrees.