Are there web available maps and lat/long coords?

[Lehi, Sariah and the Liahona]

I have been using search engines to get maps to locations according to address as well as for lat/long coordinates. Does anyone have suggestions for a web site that will convert an address to latitude and longitude? For example, I was recently in Mesa, Arizona for my sister's wedding. The reception was in west Phoenix for which I had the address. I just neede to have Ccoodinates to plug into the GPS unit.

 

Any help? Thanx.

[+Poindexter]

Try MapsOnUs (these coordinates are in NAD27 Datum) and GeoCode. On the MapsOnUs site, after you have the map, on the "Map-Clicking will:" pop-up menu, click "show lon/lat" to get the coordinates (after clicking on the address).

[+Markwell]

I've got this FAQ thingy on my website that goes in to great detail about this stuff and a whole lot of other stuff. Might want to check it out. Jeremy even mentions it in the thread locked at the top of the Getting Started thread. His thread is called Read First! Geocaching Frequently Asked Questions.

 

Markwell

Chicago Geocaching

[+BigBirdNL]

You can use CacheMaps to get online maps for your coordinates of caches. About 15 online maps are supported at the moment.

 

BigBird

 

-- there is no spoon --

[+Happy Together]

GPSbabel provided the missing link for doing this for me...

 

I could import a csv file of addresses into Streets and Trips (using the import data wizard) and have it match addresses to points on a map. This works like a charm.

 

But until GPSbabel, I had no way to take these push pins and *do* anything with them (like download them to my gps). It was always a manual effort to use the 'location sensor' tool and try to pinpoint the locations, and then manually transcribe the coordinates...

 

Now, I export the map area I'm interested in using "Export for Pocket Streets and Trips". This createa a map file (.mps) that I don't really care about (I don't have a pocket pc and microsoft doesn't like talking to palms), but this export also creates a pushpins file (.psp).

 

The psp file is what we want -- because it has all the pushpin information for the map area (including latitude and longitude for each pushpin).

 

GPSbabel will read this psp file and convert it to a .loc or .gpx (or any of many other file types) that can then be loaded into Easygps or Expertgps and downloaded to my gps.

 

Bruce