Defunct first-party. 1  Aces Studio â Microsoft Flight Simulator series. 2  Digital Anvil â Brute Force, Freelancer. 3  Ensemble Studios â Age of Empires series, Halo Wars. 4  FASA Studio â MechWarrior series, Shadowrun. 5  Hired Gun â Halo 2 for Windows Vista. 6  Lionhead Studios â Fable series, Black & White series.
The term meridiangenerally refers to any line that runs pole to pole, on the surface of a sphere. Figure 2a (left): The Earth's coordinate system, latitude and longitude. The central axis runs through the North and South poles. Figure 2b (right): The pole-to-pole lines along the surface are lines of longitude.
Coordinates are the numbers used to tell us how to get to a certain point on a grid-eg, a graph or map. The grid will have an x axis which runs horizontally, and a y axis that runs vertically. Coordinates are written in pairs. The coordinate of P on the graph above is (2, 1).