Zachaban Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Am I the only one who has trouble with this all out of a sudden? Solved a mystery, plugged the coordinates into the GoogleMaps search bar and all I get is hits of places that are called 'N' and the Terminal 'E' of my local airport. -.- I tried several different options of writing the coordinates. When looking for alternative sites around the web, all I found was apps, no normal websites (except Bing Maps - and that doesn't work either, nor did I expect it to). Not owning a smartphone, apps don't help me much. What sites/programs do you use in this kind of situations? Quote Link to comment
+speakers-corner Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Works fine for me. My base in GoogleMaps was Karlsruhe in Germany and I entered coordinate for Saalbach in Austria, worked a treat. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Works for me, have you perhaps got some other character in the string you're pasting that makes Google think it's not a set of co-ordinates? Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Google Maps doesn't like having the letters come second, or other extraneous characters. But just plugging "N 0 E 0" into the search box brings me to Null Island, as it should. Quote Link to comment
Zachaban Posted November 22, 2017 Author Share Posted November 22, 2017 I got it working, although I'm still not sure what the mistake was in the first place. Can be closed. Thanks for the replies and especially hzoi, I used your link to work off of. Quote Link to comment
+thebruce0 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 (edited) You can also prepend the search with "loc:" (eg loc:n43 11.111, w80 11.111) and that should work for DDM format and DD. Maybe DMS, but I never use that because special character Edited November 22, 2017 by thebruce0 Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 21 hours ago, hzoi said: Google Maps doesn't like having the letters come second, or other extraneous characters. But just plugging "N 0 E 0" into the search box brings me to Null Island, as it should. I am a bit surprised that works as it's not a valid coordinate format. It could be interpreted as N 0.0 E 0.0, which would be Decimal Degrees format, but I would expect that a decimal value requiring a decimal point. As decimal degrees format can be expressed without the hemisphere labels (N/S/E/W) just entering two *valid* decimal values (-180 - 180) with a space character in between will work as a coordinate search as well. There's a little trick that I use with Google maps quite often. Look at any place on the map and right click. select that "What's Here" menu option and a pop-up window with show a "feature" and the coordinates in decimal degrees format. Quote Link to comment
+noncentric Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 5 hours ago, NYPaddleCacher said: There's a little trick that I use with Google maps quite often. Look at any place on the map and right click. select that "What's Here" menu option and a pop-up window with show a "feature" and the coordinates in decimal degrees format. That pop-up window can be activated by putting the mouse at any place on the map and left clicking. It works on a PC that way. Not sure if it works that way on a Mac. The right-click -> What's here also works on a PC, but requires one extra click. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 18 hours ago, noncentric said: That pop-up window can be activated by putting the mouse at any place on the map and left clicking. It works on a PC that way. Not sure if it works that way on a Mac. The right-click -> What's here also works on a PC, but requires one extra click. I hadn't noticed that it works with a left click. I found that a left click on the map will bring up the pop up window. A subsequent left click on the map will close the window, then a left click somewhere else on the map will bring up a window with the new location. The right click always brings up the menu with the "What's Here?" link. I'd try it on a Mac but I've got it packed up ready for a trip to NYC (for the Cornell vs. Boston University Red Hot Hockey game at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night) later this morning. Quote Link to comment
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