Online Maps

[+ryme-intrinseca]

I'm having a 'thick' day today - must be because it's friday, and my brain is scrambled!

 

I have just solved a puzzle cache, and wanted to see where the co-ordinates I have found appear on a map. I have tried multimap, but this seems to either let you do a non - USA search, or a latitude / longitude search, but not both.

 

I have tried Street Map, but can't get my head around how to type in the co-ordinates - if they are e.g...

 

N51.AB.CDE

W003.FG.HIJ

 

...can someone tell me how to enter these so that Streetmap understands them please? I know I've done it at some stage before, but can't remember how, and the 'help' page is just confusing me even more.

 

I have also tried Google Earth, as you can manually move the cursor until you find the co-ords, but for the area I need, the resolution is not particuarly high.

 

Any help would be appreciated!

[+HazelS]

I'm having a 'thick' day today - must be because it's friday, and my brain is scrambled!

 

I have just solved a puzzle cache, and wanted to see where the co-ordinates I have found appear on a map. I have tried multimap, but this seems to either let you do a non - USA search, or a latitude / longitude search, but not both.

 

I have tried Street Map, but can't get my head around how to type in the co-ordinates - if they are e.g...

 

N51.AB.CDE

W003.FG.HIJ

 

...can someone tell me how to enter these so that Streetmap understands them please? I know I've done it at some stage before, but can't remember how, and the 'help' page is just confusing me even more.

 

I have also tried Google Earth, as you can manually move the cursor until you find the co-ords, but for the area I need, the resolution is not particuarly high.

 

Any help would be appreciated!

 

 

for Streetmap... just do:

 

Nxx xx.xxx Wx xx.xxx

[Deego]

dont forget Streetmap uses Hdd.mm.sss not Hddmm.mmm

 

so you will need to convert the decimal min's into seconds

 

Nxx,xx.xxx wx,xx.xxx

Edited April 7, 2006 by Deego

[+The Other Stu]

Google Maps?

 

http://maps.google.com

 

I personally use Google Earth where possible too.

[+MasqueradeUK]

dont forget Streetmap uses Hdd.mm.sss not Hddmm.mmm

 

so you will need to convert the decimal min's into seconds

 

Nxx,xx.xxx wx,xx.xxx

 

Just did a google for coordinate converter and found:

 

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/gridconvert.html

 

HTH

[+ryme-intrinseca]

Brill, thanks everyone! I think I used the 'grid convert' thing last time, forgot about it this time.

 

Cheers for all your help!

[Deego]

If you use GSAK you can right click the cache and select correct coords, then when you show using streetmap it will be in the correct place on the map automagicly.

[+Learned Gerbil]

http://benchmarks.org.uk/map.php?c=

 

Then type in what you want - it seems very forgiving.

[+adambro]

Another vote for Google Maps (or Google Earth). It will accept coords in just about any format.

[+Brenin Tegeingl]

Some one will be able to tell you where to get it from (sorry I can't remember) . If your using FireFox there is a button you can add on to your tool bar where you can write or paste the coordinates, which will show you the location on a 1:50 000 map (Streetmap) OS? maps.

 

Dave

[+minstrelcat]

http://www.nearby.org.uk/ is very useful too.

 

Lisa

[+Learned Gerbil]

Some one will be able to tell you where to get it from (sorry I can't remember) . If your using FireFox there is a button you can add on to your tool bar where you can write or paste the coordinates, which will show you the location on a 1:50 000 map (Streetmap) OS? maps.

 

Dave

 

It is in the pinned thread on resources for Uk cachers and the script is written to work with the URL I gave.

[+Brenin Tegeingl]

Some one will be able to tell you where to get it from (sorry I can't remember) . If your using FireFox there is a button you can add on to your tool bar where you can write or paste the coordinates, which will show you the location on a 1:50 000 map (Streetmap) OS? maps.

 

Dave

 

It is in the pinned thread on resources for Uk cachers and the script is written to work with the URL I gave.

 

Thanks LG since I orginaly started using it, it has survived several upgrades to FireFox with no problems

 

Dave

[+Learned Gerbil]

I use it al lthe time, but if you don't have coordinates on a webpage to select - just launch the script which opens the URL above, and type in the coords - as I said, it is very forgiving!

[+Gary & Jane]

Some one will be able to tell you where to get it from (sorry I can't remember) . If your using FireFox there is a button you can add on to your tool bar where you can write or paste the coordinates, which will show you the location on a 1:50 000 map (Streetmap) OS? maps.

 

Dave

I updated the map linker recently so as well as accepting normal geocaching coordinates it now accepts OS grid references and post codes. There's also a page to automatically generate the button you mention for Firefox and IE. The advantage of using this button is that it all you have to do to get a map is highlight some coordinates (or a post code) on any webpage and click the button.

 

The main page can be found here: http://benchmarks.org.uk/map.php

 

The button (called a bookmarklet) generator can be found here: http://benchmarks.org.uk/bookmarklet.php

 

Further information can be found here: http://benchmarks.org.uk/maphowto.php

 

Gary

[+Nellies Knackers]

If you use firefox create a bookmark in the bar at the top and change the link to "java script:void(setTimeout(%22bmsorguk=new Date();void(window.open('http://benchmarks.org.uk/map.php?size=5&c='+escape(window.getSelection()),'w'+bmsorguk.getTime()))%22,10));"

(without the quotes) then if you highlight the coordinates and click the bookmark you will get a new browser window with the map and arrow, there is a version about for IE too that is slightly different.

[+Moote]

dont forget Streetmap uses Hdd.mm.sss not Hddmm.mmm

 

so you will need to convert the decimal min's into seconds

 

Nxx,xx.xxx wx,xx.xxx

Well I thought the above statement was incorrect; so I tested it and the format DD MM.mmm does work; it has my house just where I like it, that is at Home

[+Gary & Jane]

If you use firefox create a bookmark in the bar at the top and change the link to "java script:void(setTimeout(%22bmsorguk=new Date();void(window.open('http://benchmarks.org.uk/map.php?size=5&c='+escape(window.getSelection()),'w'+bmsorguk.getTime()))%22,10));"

(without the quotes) then if you highlight the coordinates and click the bookmark you will get a new browser window with the map and arrow, there is a version about for IE too that is slightly different.

 

Or use the generator for Firefox and IE here: http://benchmarks.org.uk/bookmarklet.php

 

Gary

[+Nellies Knackers]

Nice one Gary, it just gets better and better!

[+wigglesworth]

I got the impresson from Deego that you can show a streetmap directly from GSAK. I did a right click on the cache but no mention of streetmap link. Can anyone help me please.

 

Peter

[+wigglesworth]

I have found a link to multimap which gives a whole range of maps including OS maps.

List the caches via GSAK

Right click

select custom URL then multimap option

 

Works fine for me and savesopening caches pages and streetmap - all performed by single click on GSAK.

 

Peter

[+Moote]

I got the impresson from Deego that you can show a streetmap directly from GSAK. I did a right click on the cache but no mention of streetmap link. Can anyone help me please.

 

Peter

Can't read any mention of GSAK in Deego's forum entry. I did my test through the Streetmap site

[+wigglesworth]

Moote

Peraps I misunderstood Deego. He wrote

"If you use GSAK you can right click the cache and select correct coords, then when you show using streetmap it will be in the correct place on the map automagicly."

 

 

Peter

[+Moote]

Moote

Peraps I misunderstood Deego. He wrote

"If you use GSAK you can right click the cache and select correct coords, then when you show using streetmap it will be in the correct place on the map automagicly."

 

 

Peter

Sorry i misunderstood, yes Deego did mention GSAK and is correct that GSAK can link to Streetmap. What I corrected was his remark on inputting HDD MM.mmm not being possible in Streetmap, it is an acceptable format

[Deego]

Sorry about my duff info

 

You can add custom URL via

 

tools > options > html (tab)

 

then add

 

Streetmap(50k)=http://www.nearby.org.uk/streetmap.cgi?latd=%lat&longd=%lon

 

or

 

streetmap.co.uk=http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newsearch.srf?newmap=mapp&newsearch=searchp&name=%lat,%lon&st=3&submit=search&type=LatLong

Edited April 8, 2006 by Deego

[+ryme-intrinseca]

Just to say thank you again to everyone who has helped.

 

The Firefox information was especially useful - so easy, and I didn't realise it could be done before! I now have a big list of puzzle caches to look at, and am working through them slowly.

 

One further tiny question, re. Streetmap - does anyone feel that elements such as road width, etc. are exaggerated on this site? For one puzzle cache, I typed some co-ords in, and tried finding them on Streetmap and Google Earth. Google showed them to be in a park, Streetmap showed them to be in a river!

 

Hmm, terrain 1.5 - I wonder which one is more likely??!

[+wigglesworth]

Thanks for the method to insert streetmap into links. Works great.

 

Peter