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The predictors are latitude and longitude, and target variable is region.

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  • $\begingroup$ Take the cosine of the longitude, and take the sine of the latitude. This way, points on either side of the anti-meridian (longitude 180) will be near each other in the transformed space. You may need to convert the longitude/latitude to radians first depending on the implementation of sin and cos that you're using. $\endgroup$
    – timleathart
    Apr 5, 2018 at 21:19

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Rather than modifying your data, use great circle distance for those features' conmponent of the cost function.

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