Anyone know of a good website for GPS coords?

White Rabbit · #1 09-02-2007, 08:32 AM

Hi Guys/Gals.

I'm going camping this weekend down in the Southern Highlands and I'm trying to find a web site that will give me GPS coordinates for anywhere in OZ. I want the coords so I can input them in to my ETX125.
I have a camping book called Camps 3 which is really good as it gives coordinates of all the camp sites and rest areas in the book however my girlfriends parents have the book atm.
Google earth will give you the coords but trying to find something on google earth when you dont really know where it is can be a challenge.

Thanks for any info.

Sandy

iceman (Mike) · #2 09-02-2007, 08:39 AM

Hi Sandy

I was going to suggest Google Earth or Heavens-Above.

sheeny (Al) · #3 09-02-2007, 10:03 AM

Ditto. I have been quite impressed with the accuracy Google Earth can achieve (if you can be that accurate ahead of time!).

I assume you don't have a GPS to take with you...

Al.

Striker (Tony) · #4 09-02-2007, 10:16 AM

How about here.

http://life.csu.edu.au/geo/findlatlong.html

White Rabbit · #5 09-02-2007, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Striker

How about here.

http://life.csu.edu.au/geo/findlatlong.html

Smokin... that did the job great find thanks a lot.

Sandy

neB · #6 09-02-2007, 01:23 PM

I use the BOM weather radar maps.

If you go to the loop version at min range (64km for me) and move the pointer to where you are, there is a co-ord readout on the right hand side.

I reckon I could narrow my place down to about 100m or so.

Not sure if this is available where you are or not.

okiscopey (Mike) · #7 09-02-2007, 02:01 PM

There doesn't seem to be any read-out of Lat/Long in Google Maps, but other folk have developed that facility.

The best one is at: http://www.earthtools.org/

Same as standard Google Maps but with big cross in centre.

Double-click to zoom into area you want, re-centre as you go, read out Lat/Long on panel at left.

Brilliant!

This may not be the solution if you 'don't know where the place is', but worth bookmarking anyway.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #8 09-02-2007, 02:32 PM

Heavens Above is excellent.
I've refined my coordinates so they are accurate within 8 km. It gives your elevation as well.

DobDobDob (Ron) · #9 09-02-2007, 06:25 PM

Someone might be able to help me out here, my latitude is -33.80792 why is it that sometimes this is expressed as a positive number as in 33.80792 and sometimes some software won't let you type in a negative sign but the correct location comes up anyway? Is it that positive and negative are interchangeable in terms of latitude?

snowyskiesau · #10 09-02-2007, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by okiscopey

There doesn't seem to be any read-out of Lat/Long in Google Maps, but other folk have developed that facility.

googleearth does provide latitude and longitude. It gives a location down to seconds.
Versions for Linux, OS/X and windows. it's free to download.

okiscopey (Mike) · #11 09-02-2007, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by snowyskiesau

googleearth does provide latitude and longitude. It gives a location down to seconds.
Versions for Linux, OS/X and windows. it's free to download.

Thanks Geoff, I don't use Google Earth (early versions gave me trouble with OSX) so didn't know about this. Will give it another go.

I was referring to the 'web version (?)' I usually use, called Google Maps:

http://maps.google.com/

White Rabbit · #12 10-02-2007, 12:10 AM

With google earth if you place a thumb nail down on the place you want, right click on the thumb nail and the select properties. It will give you the co-ords for that location.

Sandy

snowyskiesau · #13 10-02-2007, 12:16 AM

I can't make a thumbnail appear. Are you referring to googlemaps or googleearth?

In googleearth, if you turn on the status bar under the View menu, you'll get LAT/LONG and altitude at the bottom of the map.