Geographic coordinates (obtaining)

• Manually:
  • Looking at a printed map or atlas, either those you own or at a library
  • Using a GPS satellite navigator
• On the web:
  • Multimap provides geographic coordinates of a location selected from a map.
  • The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names allows you to find coordinates with a place name search.
  • http://www.world-gazetteer.com provides geographic coordinates of many cities (select country - "cities" - city)
  • For US coordinates, USGS GNIS service is extremely extensive. It also provides linkouts to topozone and terraserver so that you can tweak the results to your liking.
  • For Australian placenames, try Geoscience Australia Place Name Search
  • Looking at a website built by GPS users, e.g. http://geourl.org/ or http://www.findu.com/ or http://www.geocaching.com/
  • Looking for GPS "Waypoint" files
  • Googleing for the city name together with "latitude", "longitude", which will give hits like http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001769.html
  • Looking at a wiki that uses map coordinates, e.g.http://susning.nu/
  • Zooming in on the place on TerraServer-USA and getting the values at left

See also Geographic coordinate system

External links

• Census Gazetteer: to identify U.S. places with coordinates.
• Getty TGN coordinates of places all over the world.