Re: Member Location Map!

["UKHA" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/03/2006 at 10:49 Mark McCall wrote:

>If you are interested please go ahead and add your location, it would
be
>interesting to see the spread of locations across the UK.
>

for those not in the UK, simply enter your zip/post code and you'll
be taken to an edit screen where you can input your lat/lon manually.

If you don't know what your lan/lon is go to google maps, find your
location using the mouse and zoom features - Hint: is google haven't mapped
your region with roads etc, try switching to Satellite view - most of the
world seems
to at least have some sat coverage on the map...

Make sure the map is centered on your location  and then click "Link
to this page"
(usually in the top right of the map in the orangy bar) - this will load
another
page - look at the address bar of your browser and the url will be
something like

http://maps.google.com/

followed by some 'gibberish'

?ll=37.996163,-98.173828&spn=37.665497,71.191406

the part you want is the ll= to the next &  (ll being lower case LL -
for Lat / Lon :) ).
So in the example above you'd end up with:

37.996163,-98.173828

The first number is the latitude the second is the longitude...




HTH

Andy