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Sample content

You may be able to find maps and data about the location on Earth with geographical coordinates

[ Discuss ] [ Edit ]
{latdegabs}° {latminint}′ {latsecdec}″ {latNS}
{londegabs}° {lonminint}′ {lonsecdec}″ {lonEW}
{latdegdec}° {latNS}
{londegdec}° {lonEW}

and a scale of approximately

1 : {scale}

in the resources listed below.

Global Systems

You can also get the location in Google Earth with an additional Wikipedia overlay in following languages:
English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish.

Systems with Wiki aspects

Near Realtime Satellite Maps

Local Systems

North America

Europe

  • Find this location on National Land Survey of Finland MapSite. Topographical maps of Finland searchable by address, placename, Finnish coordinates, and EUREF89 latitude/longitude. [18]
  • Find this location on Eniro. Roads and topography, route planner. [19]

{osgb36ref} on the British national grid reference system (note: this excludes Northern Ireland, which uses the Irish national grid reference system)

  • Find this location on Eniro. Roads and topography, route planner, aerial imagery and combination of aerial imagery and roads. [26]

{ch1903easting} / {ch1903northing} on Swiss Grid

Australia

Asia

  • MapMyIndia All India interactive map with directions.
  • Maptell All India Rail, Road and State maps.

Note:Coordinates on some Japanese map sites differs from other ones.


South America

Some of these services have provision for manual navigation by coordinates, in which case this information may be useful:

Degrees, minutes, seconds latitude and longitude: {latdegabs}° {latminint}′ {latsecdec}″ {latNS} {londegabs}° {lonminint}′ {lonsecdec}″ {lonEW} WGS84
Degrees, minutes latitude and longitude: {latdegabs}° {latmindec}′ {latNS} {londegabs}° {lonmindec}′ {lonEW} WGS84
Decimal degrees latitude and longitude: {latdegdec}° {londegdec}° WGS84
UTM Northing, Easting and zone: {utmnorthing} {utmeasting} {utmzone} WGS84
UK Ordnance Survey: {osgb36ref} Airy 1830
Switzerland CH1903; Easting, Northing: {ch1903easting} {ch1903northing} Bessel 1841
New Zealand NZTM; Easting, Northing: {nztmeasting} {nztmnorthing} NZGD2000
wiki d {{coor at d|{latdegdec}|{latNS}|{londegdec}|{lonEW}|type:_region:}} WGS84
wiki dm {{coor at dm|{latdegabs}|{latmindec}|{latNS}|{londegabs}|{lonmindec}|{lonEW}|type:_region:}} WGS84
wiki dms {{coor at dms|{latdegabs}|{latminint}|{latsecdec}|{latNS}|{londegabs}|{lonminint}|{lonsecdec}|{lonEW}|type:_region:}} WGS84

Coordinates listed as datum WGS84 will also be valid for NAD83 and EU89.

Global

Europe

Denmark

Norway

Sweden

South America

Chile

Oceania

Australia

  • SIX - New South Wales - Topographic and road plus aerial photography
  • LIST - Tasmania - Topographic, tourist and property maps

New Zealand

Other Location Based Information

Sunrise Sunset

Geocaching


Timezone

Amateur Radio

See also