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How do I find my lat and long ?What is my latitude and longitude ? |
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(Optional) Pointing angles to satellite orbit longitude Ignore the satellite pointing angles until you are familiar with finding your latitude longitude location. If you want dish pointing select the satellite and click the map afterwards. Possible problems with this page: Do page refresh if you do not see 6 square navigation boxes (north/south/west/east navigation and + /- on the left and 3 rectangular boxes at the top of the map. Firefox: If you get a "Warning-Unresponsive Script", click "Continue". It is OK and will take just a few more seconds to complete loading the map. If it takes ages to load check your browser caching is turned on. There may otherwise be multiple attempts to download all the map markers. I am reducing the number of my map markers as the basic satellite map database has more towns and cities added. |
Instructions to determine your latitude and longitude:Practice first. Put your mouse cursor near your location and double click or just drag the map. The map display will move so that the selected point is in the centre. The latitude and longitude of the centre of the map is then shown below the map. Or type the town, country, zip code or post code in the box below, for example: chicago 35035 paris france london CM2 bangalore adelaide lagos liverpool Centre the map around To refine the
accuracy of your site latitude and longitude, click on the plus sign
Next step: If you want satellite dish
pointing, select the satellite at the lower left pull down menu box and
click the map again (to recalculate the pointing angles) Latitude is North - South ( up and down ! ). Longitude is West - East ( sideways !). Latitude is zero on the equator and positive in the northern hemisphere and negative in the southern hemisphere. Longitude is zero on the prime meridian - home of Greenwich Mean Time and is positive to the east, across Europe and Asia. Longitude is negative to the west, across the Atlantic and the Americas. Read about the history of latitude and longitude. Further explanation of latitude and Longitude from National Atlas (USA) Write down your lat/long location co-ordinates for future reference. 27th April 2006: GPS sat-nav map type display is now added. The whole map system has been upgraded to Version 2 which now includes detailed street maps for UK, France, Spain and Europe road maps with towns - even in Hungary, which suits me for my cycling holidays!. 6th June 2006: I have added satellite dish angle calculation. Its use is optional. Select the satellite you want to see and then doubleclick on the map. Go to maps to see an index page with a listing of all the map pages. Tell me if you want a page made for your country. |
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Discussion forum for latitude longitude finder page Larger satellite photo image viewer for finding your home as seen from space This page is under progressive development and I would appreciate your feedback and comments. I made an update which incorporated about 195 marker dots on the map to show the latitude longitude coordinates of large cities around the world. This is to help you find your lat-long more easily. For some visitors using IE this caused some 200 lines to appear in my log file each time some one accessed the page. I have now solved this "feature of IE" making the browser download the tiny square icon once only and then reuse it locally as needed for showing all the cities on the map. I have also upgraded to Version V2 and have reduced the number of markers for countries where there are now more detailed maps for France, Espana, Portugal, Deutchland, Nederland, Danmark, Belgie Belgique, Italie, Greece, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Sverige, Norge, Suomi Finland, Polska, Serbia Montenegro and Brazil. Only the USA, UK, Japan and Hong Kong previously had detailed |