Anybody know of one of these that isn't limited to the US?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale L Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 2:57 PM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Source for Lat and Long coordinates?
>
> >
> > Howdy....since I don't own a GPS, using just my street address is
> > there an
> > Internet site that can provide me with a fairly accurate latitude and
> > longitude in degrees, minutes and seconds coordinates of my QTH? I know
> > QRZ.COM has them listed, but I would like to confirm what they say,
since
> > originally they had my County incorrect!
> >
> > thanks mucho........73 /k6sdw
> >
> > __
>
> Try this:
> Go to http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl/
>
> Scroll down and enter precise map coordinates...or close ...
>
> then zoom to better define your location and move it to the center of the
> map field.
>
> This is my QTH:
>
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapsurfer?infact=2&outfact=2&act=move&tlevel
>
=-&tvar=-&tmeth=i&mlat=&mlon=&msym=bigdot&mlabel=&murl=&lat=29.5847416&lon=-
> 95.1932831&wid=0.007&ht=0.007&conf=mapnew.con&map.x=221&map.y=170
>
>
>
>
> Here's another:
>
> Go to http://www.yahoo.com
>
> Select the Maps link under the search field textbox.
>
> Type in your street address, city, state, zip (you may only need address
and
> zip, I haven't tried that).
>
> This is my QTH:
>
>
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&addr=12610+barbizon+drive&c
>
ity=Houston&state=TX&slt=29.584800&sln=-95.193900&zip=77089-6506&country=us&
> mag=9&cs=9&BFClient=&BFKey=&poi=&poititle=&map.x=201&map.y=201
>
>
> 73,
> dale, kg5u
>
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> 73,
> dale, kg5u
>
>
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