Instant Co-ords ?

[+Clyde.]

Hi All,

Is there any mapping resources around that when you 'click' on a particular area you can get instant co-ords in our geocaching format?

Such as when you want to finding a parking spec for a cache, you can view the cache location and then click on a potential parking area nearby and it gives you the co-ords instantly?

OR, when you see a nice looking area and say to yourself,"thats looks great for a day out, wonder what the co-ords would be for that ?"

Just wondering as it would be far easier than working them out using O.S. maps etc

[+Hi-Tek]

Hi All,

Is there any mapping resources around that when you 'click' on a particular area you can get instant co-ords in our geocaching format?

Such as when you want to finding a parking spec for a cache, you can view the cache location and then click on a potential parking area nearby and it gives you the co-ords instantly?

OR, when you see a nice looking area and say to yourself,"thats looks great for a day out, wonder what the co-ords would be for that ?"

Just wondering as it would be far easier than working them out using O.S. maps etc

Memory Map Uk - not cheap but very good.

 

Also Garmin Mapsource City Select software will do what you ask.

[+Clyde.]

Wow, that was fast......

Thanks for the pointers...I will check them out

[+Naefearjustbeer]

Yip memeory map has to be the best bit of software I use

[+lordelph]

I feel another GreaseMonkey extension coming on....

[+The Cache Hoppers]

I feel another GreaseMonkey extension coming on....   

 

Oh no! Not another Congrats thread looming!

[+Bill D (wwh)]

lordelph wrote:

I feel another GreaseMonkey extension coming on....

Yes, please, that would be great!

[+Dorsetgal & GeoDog]

It's not terribly accurate but mapquest and streetmap can give you coords.

[+Clyde.]

Hey....now there's a thought, wouldnt it be great if someone could come up with a greasemonkey script rather than paying out mega bucks on the memory map stuff

Thanks for the info so far.....

[+lordelph]

No amount of Greasemonkey antics on Get-a-Map will produce anything remotely close to Memory Map, which is a fantastic piece of software.

 

I will have a go at providing a nice WGS84 coordinate display on Get-a-Map though

[+Clyde.]

I'm sure any Greasemonkey add on would be very helpful in our quest for the 'tupperware box'

Good luck and can't wait for the script, it will save us alot of time ( and Memory Map Money ) I'm sure.....

[+Simply B]

Click anywhere on a map in Streetmap.co.uk and you get a map centred on that location with the coordinates shown in the blurb below the map image as OS Easting / Northing and then WGS84 latitude/longitude in degrees, minutes and seconds. Don't know how accurate the position is, but should be fine for locating a car park.

Click the link next to the text and you get the same position in more formats including WGS84 decimal degrees. One thing you don't get is WGS84 degrees and minutes, as used on geocaching.com, but it's not very hard to work it out from what you do get.

[+lordelph]

I've already written an extension which links 1:25000 OS maps with cache pages so that the OS map displays an arrow showing the cache location, and I've had a little play around with extending this to display wgs84 coordinates.

 

It's basically working (move the mouse and you see coordinates) but I wondered what might be useful additions? Here's some ideas I had (in the order I might tackle them)

• * click map to add a coordinate to a list of coords (which you can delete and maybe reorder)
  * click to download coordinate list as gpx file
  * mark the the map with the locations of the clicked coordinates
  * mark the map with locations of all known cache locations (as picked up by clicking from a cache information page)
  

Other suggestions crazy or otherwise welcomed...

 

(EDIT: I've not made any revised versions of this extension available yet, needs some more testing before release!)

Edited October 25, 2005 by lordelph

[+Clyde.]

Hi,

Ive used streetmap etc before and its been fine for what I wanted at the time but this :

 

It's basically working (move the mouse and you see coordinates)

Sounds perfect.......

Edited October 25, 2005 by Clyde.