- Location (geography)
In
geography , location is a position or point inphysical space that something occupies on Earths' surface. A real location can often be designated using a specific pairing oflatitude andlongitude , a Cartesian coordinate grid (e.g.,State Plane Coordinate System ), a spherical coordinate system, or an ellipsoid-based system (e.g.,World Geodetic System ).A location may be described as either
absolute location , meaning the exact location of an object, or relative location, meaning the location of one object relative to another and another or in a general area. there are two types of location, relative & absolute. Relative deals with the relative spot of something on Earth. Absolute deals with the exact spot of something on Earth
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