On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:18, jtd wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:01, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On 06-Jan-07, at 2:10 PM, Mukund Deshmukh wrote: > > >> location. Knowing your coords 31.62004 74.87638 does not > > >> really tell you that u are at the golden temple Amritsar. > > > > > > Are there any public map server which translate co-ordinate to > > > location / > > > map for Indian Region? > > > > google maps? or google earth? > > No maps. Only satellite imagery. > you can go about this in a reverse way. Browse to a known location > on google maps and then extract the coords. > Eg > > http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=19.196101,72.987344&ie=UTF8 >&z=18&t=h&om=1 will show u Shivaji chowk kalwa. > > So using a combo of google and local knowledge you can create a > fairly decent map.
The above url shows a map. a few seconds ago there wasnt one. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
