Sunday, June 14, 2009

How to find a place by coordinates or address


If your friends telling you about latest Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, finding a place, coordinates, will be common to be heard. It will be quite simple to share by coordinates rather than to describe...bla...bla...bla...where exactly the place is. So this time i am talking about it.
Wikimapia is a very amazing site to take you around the world to reach every point you like. Just open up the site, have a look to your right hand side on top corner, you will find "search" field.
On clicking, it will take you to search a place by all, city and coordinates. Click coordinates tab, type a coordinate that your friend shared to you, i preferred to put in decimal degrees, just for example your friend said a better place to spend your money in Doha is City Center and he sent: 25.32580N degrees, 51.53051E degrees

So you will type like this 25.32580N, 51.53051E than press search and "bingo"...then you can zoom it in or out to ensure that is exactly the place you have to go.
If you have in a different format of coordinate, you may go this converter, so exploring without GPS handheld is no problem...

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