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Navigation about the world (planet Earth) uses the concepts of Latitude and 
Longitude to determine position on surface; these dimensions being in 
degrees, a dissection of 360 (harking back to ancient astronomers).
   Hence, you can be up to 180 degrees East or West of 0 (Greenwich), and up 
to 90 degrees North or South of the Equator - a system like being AM or PM 
in daily time.
   Yet there is Army time, the 24-hour clock, which has its uses, though not 
everyone is enamored of it.
   Likewise, it is possible to devise a navigational equivalent, whereby any 
place on the globe would have unique coordinates, being purely numeric.
   Starting at the Sao Tome-Accra Triangle (0,0), we can go the full 360 
degrees Eastward, and, also, full 360 Northward - though Southward, once the 
Pole was reached.
   There would be no need to specify East, etc, once such direction was 
commonly accepted.  Nor Latitude or Longitude, if Latitude is always stated 
first.
   This would have the benefit of putting both Latitude and Longitude within 
the same large numerical range.
   (A same-range effect may be achieved by dividing the globe into spherical 
quadrants, so each L&L was within 90 degrees.)
   The Earth is an oblate spheroid, but this is standard, whatever system is 
used.