You can find a location on Google Maps by latitude and longitude or find a specific location's coordinates on a computer or mobile device.

UTM divides the globe into a grid of many zones. UTM is less commonly used than latitude and longitude and is best for those who need to work with paper maps.

I thought because mercator projections are rectangular, I can just use a simple percentage of lat/lon to calculate the x/y position of points on the map, which is what I'm trying to do.

Instead, most preferred elliptical projections, using progressively curved lines of longitude and latitude to create artificial rounding.

A cylindrical projection model. (Wikimedia Commons) His new map was a revelation, because the projection kept the latitude and longitude lines at consistent 90 degree angles.

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Mercator Projections, the type of map Google and many other services use, were made for navigating the ocean, not visualizing the size of landmasses.