MetaChat - Where am I, exactly?

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20 June 2007

Where am I, exactly? I've tried a number of times to figure out my new latitude and longitude since moving last December. The link Mathowie has linked to on MeFi only seems to do specific addresses for within the United States. My search for a site that looks up specific addresses for Canada for free has been fruitless so far. I'm sure there must be a way to look this up. Can anyone help me out with a link to the right place?

post by: Orange Swan at: 07:39 | 12 comments

I think you can use Google Earth for this. It will list the lat/lon of where your mouse is pointed in the corner of the screen - just give it your address and mouse over it.

posted by backseatpilot 20 June | 07:52

A random search for "1 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario" on Yahoo! Canada Maps spat out this lovely URL.

You can see toward the end the bits for "lon" and "lat".

Nice map, too.

posted by mdonley 20 June | 07:53

Tried the Google search for my address, and while it did indeed map my address for me, there was no latitutde and longitude provided anywhere.

I'll try Google Earth again.

posted by Orange Swan 20 June | 08:15

I had trouble with this, too... though I can't remember exactly what I did. I did use Google Earth somehow, or possibly Google Maps.

But even then, having put in extremely precise lat/long, when I clicked it in my Mefi profile, it was coming out really far away from where I am. So I finally got bored, and forgot about it. Weeks later, I decided to give it another shot, and when I clicked this time, it was accurate. Strange.

*checks* Yep, still accurate.

posted by taz 20 June | 08:27

It seems like maybe I made it a bookmark or something (with the flag) in Google Earth in order to get the coordinates? I wish I could remember.

posted by taz 20 June | 08:29

I think if you click "link to this page" then the URL has lat and long in it.

posted by Capn 20 June | 09:08

On google maps, I mean.

posted by Capn 20 June | 09:09

Use Google maps to find your house then paste the following into the address/location bar of your browser (only tried it on Firefox):

javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));

a dialog box will pop up, voila! Remember to remove the ( and ) when using the numbers. Hope this works for you :)

This is my first comment here, so... Hi everybody! *waves*

posted by esilenna 20 June | 09:09

Google Earth.

Just find your house and put the cursor on it and on the bottom bar, you'll get more latitude and longitude info than you care to see.

posted by danf 20 June | 09:26

Wow esilenna, that works alarmingly well. Super cool! And, HI!

posted by richat 20 June | 12:28

I am so hard core, I brute-forced it. I started with some coordinates and adjusted the decimals til I was home.

posted by Eideteker 20 June | 20:41

I think if you click "link to this page" then the URL has lat and long in it.

This worked! How beautifully simple. Thanks everyone!

posted by Orange Swan 20 June | 21:49

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