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I just tried the boulter.com/gps site (even cutting-and-pasting the url
below to make sure I hadn't misspelled it).

One thing I noticed is that it isn't quite smart enough to recognize
just degrees of latitude and longitude.  Since I live near San
Francisco, I tried just typing in 38 -122 as an approximate L/Lo (by
convention, west longitude is considered negative).   No response.
"Whoops," I thought, "forgot to add minutes.  So I tried 38 00  -122 00.
   Still no response.  Finally tried 38 00.0  -122 00.0 and got a map of
Concord CA, just east of SF.

Boulter is a manager at Yahoo and does geocaching as a hobby, he put
together the site as a way of allowing other geocachers to quickly get
maps to a specific L/Lo.   So we should forgive him if the site isn't
quite perfect, it's a work of love (but I sure wish it would let me know
when it can't figure out my input rather than just silently failing).

Hope this helps.

Lu Abel

Michael Dorl wrote:
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>>James R. Van Zandt wrote:
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>>True.  Google seems to be the one site that obviously supports L/Lo
>>input.  Other sites (such as Yahoo) will accept it but it's a hidden
>>interface.   The site I referred to, boulter.com/gps, links to 14
>>different mapping sites.
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> Is my browser broken or is this page non-functional?  I put in my
> coordinates per the example but none of the active links do anything.
>
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> >
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