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[bazmlb]

To find your latitude and Longitude use our lookup tool here

Edited by Maestro, 2011-10-08 04:15:04.
Updated link.

[Abrak]

bazmlb, on 2009-08-22 23:18:37, said:

To find your latitude and Longitude use our lookup tool here

Puts me in Bangkok but live in Phuket.

[bazmlb]

Abrak, on 2009-08-22 23:51:02, said:

bazmlb, on 2009-08-22 23:18:37, said:

To find your latitude and Longitude use our lookup tool here

Puts me in Bangkok but live in Phuket.

To find your GPS co-ordinates scroll the map to your location and click the map, you latitude and longitude will appear in the boxes.

[sbk]

An off topic and rather insulting post has been removed. constructive criticism is always welcome but if you can't respond in a civil manner, then please don't post.

[bazmlb]

bazmlb, on 2009-08-22 23:18:37, said:

To find your latitude and Longitude use our lookup tool here

This tool is intended for Business owners who wish to list in the Thaivisa Directory and place GPS co-ordinates in their listing to assist people with finding their location using handheld GPS, in car systems or other GPS devices, the tool is an approximation of the co-ordinates.

Place a listing in the Thaivisa Directory for your business here.

[Abrak]

I dont mean to be boring or pedantic but what you are saying is that if you find yourself on a map of the world it will tell you your longtitude and latitude. That is all.

Your average mobile phone will tell you that either through GSM triangulation or GPS without navigating a global map. Am I missing something?

[bazmlb]

Abrak, on 2009-08-23 00:42:13, said:

I dont mean to be boring or pedantic but what you are saying is that if you find yourself on a map of the world it will tell you your longtitude and latitude. That is all.

Your average mobile phone will tell you that either through GSM triangulation or GPS without navigating a global map. Am I missing something?

When people are trying to enter a location into a gps, its done by latitude and longitude, if you have these for a destination its easy to enter them and do a go to in the GPS. So this tool is useful for business owners to add latitude and longitude to their listing in the Thaivisa Directory to help people find them.

[Gary A]

It will be a giant task to enter the many thousands of destinations but this is the foundation for it. It looks and works fine. Unfortunately you can't please everyone.

[Puccini]

Abrak, on 2009-08-22 19:42:13, said:

I dont mean to be boring or pedantic but what you are saying is that if you find yourself on a map of the world it will tell you your longtitude and latitude. That is all.

Your average mobile phone will tell you that either through GSM triangulation or GPS without navigating a global map. Am I missing something?

Abrak, you sound like the man who can help me with my problem. My HTC Dream mobile phone has GPS, and Google Maps for Mobile is installed. When I press "Menu" and tap on "My Location" a blue blinking dot shows my position on the map, but I cannot find a way for the phone to display the co-ordinates. How do you do it on your phone?

Edited by Puccini, 2009-08-24 02:27:44.

[GungaDin]

Good idea, but which read-out should I trust, the street map or the satellite image (without labels)?
Reading 2 stops from maximum zoom.

There's quite difference. Has anyone with a GPS tested this?
Gary, Helmut, Allan?

I could answer my own Q if I had a GPS.

Thanks!

[GungaDin]

I tend to trust the readout from the sat image over the map.

[Gary A]

There are many different coordinate formats. The decimal format used on the TV map is the easiest to use. Some people use a different format and think the decimal system should read the same. It does NOT.

[ihightower]

Puccini, on 2009-08-24 02:25:08, said:

Abrak, on 2009-08-22 19:42:13, said:

I dont mean to be boring or pedantic but what you are saying is that if you find yourself on a map of the world it will tell you your longtitude and latitude. That is all.

Your average mobile phone will tell you that either through GSM triangulation or GPS without navigating a global map. Am I missing something?

Abrak, you sound like the man who can help me with my problem. My HTC Dream mobile phone has GPS, and Google Maps for Mobile is installed. When I press "Menu" and tap on "My Location" a blue blinking dot shows my position on the map, but I cannot find a way for the phone to display the co-ordinates. How do you do it on your phone?

Open Google Maps... click Menu -> More -> About ... and in there you can see the "Center:" with latitude and longitude of what is shown on your screen in the center.

You can also download "GPS Status 2" from market.. which is a very good application and provides lots of other useful info at the current location.

Or, "GPS Tracker" application which can track your movements on web. You can give access to other users.

Hope this helps.

[ihightower]

GungaDin, on 2009-08-24 05:48:46, said:

Good idea, but which read-out should I trust, the street map or the satellite image (without labels)?
Reading 2 stops from maximum zoom.

There's quite difference. Has anyone with a GPS tested this?
Gary, Helmut, Allan?

I could answer my own Q if I had a GPS.

Thanks!

Street Map is MORE accurate than the Satellite one. I have experienced that Satellite View is off by a few meters in several locations.

[GungaDin]

ihightower, on 2009-08-24 10:44:52, said:

GungaDin, on 2009-08-24 05:48:46, said:

Good idea, but which read-out should I trust, the street map or the satellite image (without labels)?
Reading 2 stops from maximum zoom.

There's quite difference. Has anyone with a GPS tested this?
Gary, Helmut, Allan?

I could answer my own Q if I had a GPS.

Thanks!

Street Map is MORE accurate than the Satellite one. I have experienced that Satellite View is off by a few meters in several locations.

s'funny, I found the opposite, oh well, no worries, as long as you can get close enough to the destination, I guess that's all that matters.

A readout from a GPS should be spot on. Shouldn't it?

[cessnanz]

Abrak, on 2009-08-23 01:42:13, said:

I dont mean to be boring or pedantic but what you are saying is that if you find yourself on a map of the world it will tell you your longtitude and latitude. That is all.
Your average mobile phone will tell you that either through GSM triangulation or GPS without navigating a global map. Am I missing something?

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I seem to recall that to be accurate--there are also " Minutes & Seconds in the equation ?---or am I on the wrong planet- at the moment-

Bucko
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[Gary A]

cessnanz, on 2009-08-24 14:20:14, said:

Abrak, on 2009-08-23 01:42:13, said:

I dont mean to be boring or pedantic but what you are saying is that if you find yourself on a map of the world it will tell you your longtitude and latitude. That is all.
Your average mobile phone will tell you that either through GSM triangulation or GPS without navigating a global map. Am I missing something?

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I seem to recall that to be accurate--there are also " Minutes & Seconds in the equation ?---or am I on the wrong planet- at the moment-

Bucko
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You're on the right planet but you are on the wrong format. A degree is split into minutes and seconds OR a degree can be split into decimal format. A degree split into five or six places is much more accurate than what is needed for navigation.

[ihightower]

GungaDin, on 2009-08-24 13:32:01, said:

ihightower, on 2009-08-24 10:44:52, said:

GungaDin, on 2009-08-24 05:48:46, said:

Good idea, but which read-out should I trust, the street map or the satellite image (without labels)?
Reading 2 stops from maximum zoom.

There's quite difference. Has anyone with a GPS tested this?
Gary, Helmut, Allan?

I could answer my own Q if I had a GPS.

Thanks!

Street Map is MORE accurate than the Satellite one. I have experienced that Satellite View is off by a few meters in several locations.

s'funny, I found the opposite, oh well, no worries, as long as you can get close enough to the destination, I guess that's all that matters.

A readout from a GPS should be spot on. Shouldn't it?

Look here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll...mp;t=h&z=18

The white and yellow lines are from Map View. You can see that the Actual Roads (Satellite View) are Off by a few metres from those white and yellow lines.

When I used my GPS Tracking driving along these roads... I can see I am moving along the white and yellow lines.. but the road images are a little off. If I used Map View, I am moving exactly along those lines.

I think this is something to do with the scaling of the Satellite Images... However Map View looks accurate.

Edited by ihightower, 2009-08-24 22:33:39.

[Puccini]

ihightower, on 2009-08-24 05:43:34, said:

...Open Google Maps... click Menu -> More -> About ... and in there you can see the "Center:" with latitude and longitude of what is shown on your screen in the center.

You can also download "GPS Status 2" from market.. which is a very good application and provides lots of other useful info at the current location.

Or, "GPS Tracker" application which can track your movements on web. You can give access to other users.

Hope this helps.

Thank you. I remember tapping on "More" but did not expect to find the coordinates under "About". I found it now. On the line below "Center", my phone shows "Span: 0.027062,0.027464" and I wonder what this means.

With GMS triangulation my location is shown a few hundred metres off the correct place and would not be good enough to place my business on the map, if I had any in Thailand, but with GPS it is accurate. Of course, with my phone with GPS and Google Maps I would also need a GPRS subscription or something like that in Thailand, or I could save the money for a beer and use ThaiVisa's free service instead. But with a successful business in Thailand I probably would not have to worry about having enough money for beer

"GPS Status 2" sounds interesting and I will look at it. Thanks for the tip.

[ihightower]

Puccini, on 2009-08-25 02:54:08, said:

ihightower, on 2009-08-24 05:43:34, said:

...Open Google Maps... click Menu -> More -> About ... and in there you can see the "Center:" with latitude and longitude of what is shown on your screen in the center.

You can also download "GPS Status 2" from market.. which is a very good application and provides lots of other useful info at the current location.

Or, "GPS Tracker" application which can track your movements on web. You can give access to other users.

Hope this helps.

Thank you. I remember tapping on "More" but did not expect to find the coordinates under "About". I found it now. On the line below "Center", my phone shows "Span: 0.027062,0.027464" and I wonder what this means.

With GMS triangulation my location is shown a few hundred metres off the correct place and would not be good enough to place my business on the map, if I had any in Thailand, but with GPS it is accurate. Of course, with my phone with GPS and Google Maps I would also need a GPRS subscription or something like that in Thailand, or I could save the money for a beer and use ThaiVisa's free service instead. But with a successful business in Thailand I probably would not have to worry about having enough money for beer

"GPS Status 2" sounds interesting and I will look at it. Thanks for the tip.

Span is how much area you can see from the center of the map... right/left/top/right.

if you Zoom in to the fullest... the Span number will be smaller... That is you can only see a smaller area from the center of the map.

If you Zoom out to the widest area... the Span number will be higher... That is you can see a bigger area from the center of the map.

I haven't really verified this.. but, I trust this to be true.

[prepress]

GungaDin, on 2009-08-24 13:32:01, said:

Street Map is MORE accurate than the Satellite one. I have experienced that Satellite View is off by a few meters in several locations.
s'funny, I found the opposite, oh well, no worries, as long as you can get close enough to the destination, I guess that's all that matters.

A readout from a GPS should be spot on. Shouldn't it?

Hi, I always take the coordinates from the map view + highest zoom and enter them in my GPS. It works perfect. It may be 5 or 10 meter off at destination. But that is normal.
If more than 20 meter off, I save the correct location on the spot. I use decimal degree format.

Helmut

[Bisto]

some parts of Buri Ram do not show up are there undated maps.

[GungaDin]

A cool tool, Baz, thank you.

[DickFarang]

GungaDin, on 2009-08-24 13:32:01, said:

ihightower, on 2009-08-24 10:44:52, said:

GungaDin, on 2009-08-24 05:48:46, said:

Good idea, but which read-out should I trust, the street map or the satellite image (without labels)?
Reading 2 stops from maximum zoom.

There's quite difference. Has anyone with a GPS tested this?
Gary, Helmut, Allan?

I could answer my own Q if I had a GPS.

Thanks!

Street Map is MORE accurate than the Satellite one. I have experienced that Satellite View is off by a few meters in several locations.

s'funny, I found the opposite, oh well, no worries, as long as you can get close enough to the destination, I guess that's all that matters.

A readout from a GPS should be spot on. Shouldn't it?

For the village, where I live in East-Pattaya, the street map is not correct.

Although the houses are over 10 years old, a number of sois is missing on the street map.

The satellite image looks much more accurate.

[tinsom]

can anyone tell me how to find dierections in thailand