I don't know your application but, if lat/lon don't work very well, you could also try something like geohashing.
Something that's weird about longitude is that it loops. you might have weird things at the boundary. It's also odd that the distance between two points is also a function of latitude.
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I don't know your application but, if lat/lon don't work very well, you could also try something like geohashing.
Something that's weird about longitude is that it loops. you might have weird things at the boundary. It's also odd that the distance between two points is also a function of latitude.