Real life grid

We don't neccesarily think of it as a "grid layout," but the longitude and latitude lines on a globe actually form a grid. As in design, the grid lines here make it much easier to measure space and to standardize distances and locations. The meridian system has been around for hundreds of years, so it seems to be working pretty well. That probably has something to do with the fact that there are actually thousands of longitude and latitude lines, making the "grid" very flexible... it's more or less analogous to a magazine grid with tons of rows and columns.