Timeline for What's the correct term for horizontally and vertically on a map?
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| Dec 29, 2013 at 19:28 | comment | added | Konrad Viltersten | I just realized a horrible, logical-excrement. While latitude is, as you very correctly pointed out, a horizontal entity, the latitudinal movement is very much a vertical occurrence. It'd be much more convenient if I was a sloppy, dumb individual unconcerned with exactness of the linguistic weirdifications. Then again, I'm a math post-grad. :) | |
| Dec 29, 2013 at 19:25 | comment | added | Konrad Viltersten | Wikipedia seems to disagree with your first statement. :) (Or, rather, the statement itself is correct down to the bones but the vertical direction on the map is equivalent to moving accross the latitudes, meaning that it's the latitudinal movement that takes you to the poles.) | |
| Dec 29, 2013 at 19:16 | vote | accept | Konrad Viltersten | ||
| Dec 29, 2013 at 19:09 | history | answered | Michael Roy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
