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Re: Question to the list
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2012 Apr 5, 10:41 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2012 Apr 5, 10:41 -0700
I'm not sure how to get Google Maps to display L/Lo, but you can *enter* a L/Lo and get the map to center there.
In fact, here's a neat site where you can enter a L/Lo and bring up any of a variety of maps (Google, MapQuest, Yahoo, etc).
http://boulter.com/gps/
I had a friend who spent several years cruising from San Francisco to Panama City. Every now and then he'd send his friends a "where am I," giving just his latitude and longitude.
My favorite was when he was in the Gulf of California. Using the URL above I found several servers (including one that had charts) that pinpointed his position. I saw the town he was anchored off and could search for that on Google, so I was eventually able to report to him: "You are anchored in XXXX cove [I've forgotten the name] in about 20 feet of water, about 1/2 mile south of the Point Lobos [?] lighthouse. By the way, how's the view of the clothing-optional beach of the hotel directly east of you??"
Ah, here it is. Go to Google Maps Labs (link at the bottom left side of the Maps page). You will see a long list of options. Scroll down and you'll see both an option you can turn on to make the cursor display its L/Lo as you move it around and another option to allow you to drop markers showing L/Lo.
Fun to discover
this!
From: Alexandre E Eremenko <eremenko@math.purdue.edu>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 8:51 AM
Subject: [NavList] Question to the list
Google maps gives nice maps and photos.
But it does not give Latitude and Longitude.
1. Perhaps someone knows how to make it show the coordinates?
2. In the past I used Terraserver, but it is not free anymore
and my university does not subscribe it.
3. Any other site on the Internet for good maps and/or satellite photos
with co-codinates?
4. I know Google Earth. It requires some installation on my computer,
which I would rather not do.
Alex.
