Re: Latitude & Longitude Websites

[Robert Hough]

Like John, I used to use Mapblast to obtain long/lat coordinates (the lat/long feature was limited to the US) and had also discovered that this feature is no longer available. So thanks to John for sharing the Maporama web site and to Patrick Powers for contributing the Multimap web site.   I have been trying both of them and have found that Maporama offers the coordinate in both the d/m/s and decimal notations while Multumap offers only d/m/s, but that is a small difference.  The big difference is the Multimap is much better in locating small streets and exact locations and showing the street details. I am currently working on dials for people that live on short streets in Germany, Scotland and the US and Multimap has been able to find them all right down to the street block, while Maporama in most cases could only discriminate to the town level and in some cases couldn't even find the town. For my own address on a one-block long street, Maporama can't find it, while Multimap pin points it exactly even though it doesn't show my street on the map background, it does show the exact location in relation to nearby streets.   http://www.multimap.com    http://maporama.com   Robert Hough Shadow Master 32.37 N     111.13 W .     ----- Original Message ----- From: John Carmichael To: Sundial List Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 11:58 AM Subject: Latitude & Longitude Websites Latitude & Longitude Websites:   In searching for a website that gives you latitude and longitude coordinates from a street address or zipcode, I really started to worry when I found out that all of the major map making websites do not offer this service anymore. (I tried Mapquest, Mapblast, Yahoo, National Geographic and the US Geological Survey)  If they do, their websites are so cumbersome that I was not able to find out if they do this, esp USGA).   Finally, I found this good site:   http://geography.about.com   and it linked me to this great sublink   http://geography.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maporama.com%2F   which took me to:   http://maporama.com   This map creating site is much better than mapblast or mapquest was!  It gives latitude and longitude in both decimal form and degrees:min:sec.  It works for anyplace in the world. And it's very user friendly.   John   John L. Carmichael Jr. Sundial Sculptures 925 E. Foothills Dr. Tucson Arizona 85718 USA   Tel: 520-696-1709 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com>