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Pinpointing a locatation from Lat and Long

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19 years 11 months ago #7764 by albertw
Occasionally its useful to be able to show a location on a map when you only have the lat and long.

www.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp

is the only website I've seen that can do this down to a real street level.
Useful for ISS transits etc.

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19 years 11 months ago #7768 by DaveGrennan
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This one can do it the other way around. I.e find your street and give you its latitude and longitude. Both Very useful

www.maporama.com/share/

Look at the map section and enter your street address.

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19 years 11 months ago #7769 by DaveGrennan
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Also try putting the result of the maporama site into the mapquest site. I found the result to be very accurate.

I am 53,22,50 -6,10,53

Very handy for plugging into the ETX:)

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19 years 11 months ago #7783 by James Butler
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Can you explain the terms "street" and "post code" to me please?

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19 years 11 months ago #7785 by DaveGrennan
Replied by DaveGrennan on topic Re: Pinpointing a locatation from Lat and Long

Can you explain the terms "street" and "post code" to me please?


James,

Dont worry about the poscode just fill in the 'street' and 'city' e.g. for my location

Street = "Lein Gardens"
City = "Dublin"

That will get it for you. You can more precisely center (i.e. on your house location by clicking on the map.

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19 years 11 months ago #7791 by dave_lillis
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cool site, gives exact Long/lat,
Now I know where I am :)

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