Location Coordinates / GPS Details Websites

In General on 23/2/2005 at 11:03 pm

Have been looking for a while with no luck, does anyone know any websites that act like Microsoft’s map search worldwide but which gives you a GPS reading or longitude / latitude readings for that location (rather than just a map). GeoURL is still working on getting up again so that’s no good for now… any other ideas?

Update: Seems like Getty has some potential… but a bit limited and I’d prefer GPS

Here’s Fitzroy:

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 47 00 S degrees minutes Lat: -37.7833 decimal degrees
Long: 144 59 00 E degrees minutes Long: 144.9833 decimal degrees

  1. Check out some of the links provided by IndyJunior:
    http://www.bryanboyer.com/indyjunior/manual.phtml#locations

    There are a few services here to get coordinates, have not tried them all…

    Indy is a nifty Flash app that reads and XML file, and then plots locations based on coordinates and dates- I use it just to track my yearly travels:
    http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/indy/

    IndyJunior
    http://www.bryanboyer.com/indyjunior/

    Alan Levine 24 February 2005 at 3am

  2. Cool thanks Alan,

    Looks like I can get pretty accurate Latitude & longitude readings with Maporama http://www.maporama.com … now I wonder how accurate this is, street level / area level?

    Lat-Long:
    -37° 46′ 28″ , 145° 0′ 48″
    -37.7747 , 145.0134

    Also got these from http://www.multimap.com which looks equally cool

    X: 16142800m
    Y: -4521400m

    Lat: 37:46:29S (-37.7747)
    Lon: 145:00:48E (145.0134)

    Now is this what GPS is basically calulated in? Time to go & find out…

    Cheers, James

    James Farmer 24 February 2005 at 3pm

  3. These are the coordinates for the road next to mine:

    X: 16142900m
    Y: -4521400m

    Lat: 37:46:29S (-37.7749)
    Lon: 145:00:52E (145.0144)

    Which is pretty darn precise!

    James Farmer 24 February 2005 at 3pm

  4. Check it out, they both track by house number… however, there some small macro differences between the two:

    Maporama:

    no. 18: -37° 46′ 32″ , 145° 0′ 47″-37.7756 , 145.0132
    no. 16: -37° 46′ 31″ , 145° 0′ 47″-37.7754 , 145.0132

    Multimap:

    no.18: X: 16142800m Y: -4521300m
    Lat: 37:46:27S (-37.7743) Lon: 145:00:49E (145.0136)

    no.16: X:16142800m Y:-4521300m
    Lat: 37:46:28S (-37.7744) Lon: 145:00:49E (145.0136)

    Interesting… wonder why… same difference (1s) but starting and translated differently both ways… hmmmmm

    James Farmer 24 February 2005 at 3pm

  5. OK, last comment (by me) GPS is obviously measured in lat & long (duh) and here’s the place you can pop it in:

    http://tinyurl.com/6xvxp

    (by Mapquest: http://www.mapquest.com)

    Although I was only able to get down to a pretty macro level of detail & I can’t find lat/long search facilities on the other sites.

    James Farmer 24 February 2005 at 4pm