Re:One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm
by tk75x on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @10:18AM
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My middle school geography teacher had a more memorable (to me) approach: lat = fat, so if you think of a fat person, their belt is the equator and latitude lines run parallel to it. Long = long hair, so if the Earth is positioned north-up, the hair (longitude lines) runs from top to bottom.
Re:One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm
by CallOfTheWilde on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @08:43AM
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I was taught that latitude lines resemble the rungs of a ladder ("lat"-er, I suppose), or alternatively that longitude lines are all equally long.
Someone once told be a simple way to remember the difference. Longitude and latitude was first used be Greeks to travel the Mediterranean ocean (not sure if that is true, but helps with remembering); The Mediterranean ocean is long from East to West, so moving in the long direction changes the longitude.