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How do I figure out my latitude and longitude?A friend of mine has been talking about "geolocation" and tells me that I simply must know my latitude and longitude. I have absolutely no idea how to do that, and figure that there must be some solution on the Web, but I haven't found it. Can you help? Sure! While you'd think that the popular mapping services would be able to offer up the latitude and longitude of a given spot, it's surprising to find that you have to go a bit further off teh beaten track to find a mapping program that includes lat long. I found that Maporama offers just that service, and it's pretty easy to work with. To demonstrate, let's figure out the lat / long of Apple's corporate headquarters in Cupertino, California. The first step is to enter the address on the home page:  Now click on "Go" and you'll get a pretty typical little map with navigational tools:  Nothing new yet, but if you look on the lower left corner of that page, you'll see exactly the information desired:  That's it! Now you know that Apple's corporate offices are located at exactly 37° 19' , -122° 1', 37.332 , -122.031. That should help you out!
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(Article 6543,
Written by Dave Taylor)
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Dave, I do volunteer work in a rural area where not every location has an address. The website www.mapbuilder.net has the same feature as maporama (getting lat/lon from an address) and goes one step further. When you move mapbuilder's pointer, the new lat/lon is shown which can be a metro parking lot or, just as easily, the beach at Crooked Creek Lake where Armstrong Habitat for Humanity holds their annual triathlon as a fundraiser. The downside of mapbuilder is that I haven't figured out their method of archiving maps. I've developed my own workaround, embedding lat/lon and a caption into a Superpages.com URL. It works! Sample: m18.local4all.com = Crooked Creek beach (as rural as it gets!) I'm the race director and it saves me tons of time not having to give extra directions to first-time participants. Archivable, Findable, and Zoomable! I enjoy getting your RSS, keep up the good work. Carl Bromley I have something to say, now that you mention it, but ...
I do have a comment, now that you mention it!
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