Tuesday 8 October 2013

Find your Coordinates

How to find the Longitude and Latitude of a place

Find your coordinates so you can have a special place and time added to one of my custom items.
Find this one here:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/129955498/co-ordinate-location-keychain-longitude?ref=shop_home_active

First of all go to:



You will see the layout like this:
Then hit the Go button


Decide which is your favorite; normal coordinates or degrees minutes and seconds. Let me know and I can make up a customised keyring just for you.

REMEMBER
If your coordinates have a minus sign in front of them make sure you add it. If you don't it will give you the wrong place (on the other side of the world) 
For the UK it is usually a -longitude (as shown in the keyring example picture at the top of the page)



To find a more specific coordinate you can move the marker on the map



Troubleshooting
If you are having problems it may be due to a few things:

1. Blue markers coming up when you move the red marker

Sometimes if you click on the map it can show blue markers these can skew the red marker coordinate. If you click the Clear/Reset button it should center the red marker to the middle of the map view you have open, and clear all the blue markers. 

2. When you try and find your point in the longitude latitude finder it comes up with somewhere completely different. 

Did you miss out a number?
Did you miss out a minus longitude or latitude?

If you are having big issues just contact me and ill be happy to help you find your special place.

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