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Old 12-August-2004, 06:26 AM
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What Role does latitude play.
-What role does Longitude play.
-What is(if any) the Combined Lat./Long. role.
-Axial tilt is important,why.
-precession and wobble.
I'm assuming that you mean "what role do these things play in city planning"?

Well, historically, these things have had NO role in city planning, mainly because they were all invented, or discovered, or thought of, or codified only in the last 100 to 200 years. No ancient civilizations had the concept of longitude, latitude, axial tilt, or precession--those are all concepts that date from the modern scientific era. (The Vikings used the concept of latitude, and other ancient sailors may have used it as well, but the Vikings weren't city planners.)

And during the modern era, AFAIK there are no cities that have been founded on principles of latitude, longitude, axial tilt, or precession.
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