Geographic coordinates (obtaining)

To obtain geographic coordinates of a place :

• Look at a good printed map or atlas, visit your library
• Use a GPS satellite navigator, if you have one
• Look at a website built by GPS users, e.g. http://geourl.org/ or http://www.findu.com/ or http://www.geocaching.com/
• Look for GPS "Waypoint" files
• Google for the city name together with "latitude", "longitude", which gives hits like http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001769.html
• Look at a map website, e.g. http://www.mapquest.com/ or http://www.yahoo.com/
• Look at a wiki that already uses map coordinates, e.g.http://susning.nu/

No matter where you find coordinates, always look to see if they seem reasonable.

See also Geographic coordinate system

External Links :

• Census Gazetteer: to identify U.S. places with coordinates (http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer).
• Getty TGN coordinates of places all over the world (http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn).