Where Can I Find City Coordinates?

[+geospyder]

We are going to the Netherlands in May. I'd like to find the coordinates for the cities of Alkmaar and Blaricom so I can do a pocket query for caches in those areas. Is there a web site somewhere where you can enter a city name and get the coordinates?

[+junglehair]

Try http://www.tageo.com/index.htm

[+Cardinal Red]

Spyder13 Posted on Mar 17 2005, 03:38 PM

I'd like to find the coordinates for the cities of Alkmaar and Blaricom

I had never used the site posted by junglehair. Have to remember it for future reference. Unless there is an option I missed, one thing that would make it a little more user friendly would be the ability to look up a city WITHOUT having to know the Province first. Of course you probably already know both cities are in the Noord-Holland Province. And the second city on your list is actually Blaricum, probably just a typo.

[+Camo-crazed]

And the second city on your list is actually Blaricum, probably just a typo.

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[+geospyder]

Thought Blaricom looked strange in my address book. Took a second closer look and sure enough my scribbled U definitely resembles an O. Guess I need to take handwriting 101 again

 

But another problem arises. I used the coordinates for Blaricum and the pocket query shows caches in the UK. Decided to use the coordinates for Amsterdam since I know there is at least one cache there. It also gave me the UK.

 

Must be doing something wrong. Here is what I used for Amsterdam:

 

Amsterdam

 

Coordinates

UTM : FU30

Geographical coordinates in decimal degrees (WGS84)

Latitude : 52.350

Longitude : 4.917

 

This is from my pocket query:

 

Decimal Degrees

N 52.350000

W 004.917000

 

The results only show four caches - all in the UK - definitely not within the 30 miles radius I requested

 

Any clues as to what I might be doing incorrectly?

[Moun10Bike]

Amsterdam is at a longitude of 4 degrees east rather than west - make that change and your Pocket Query should be good to go.

[Keystone]

I input those same coordinates and returned a whole bunch of Netherlands caches. By any chance, do you have just the U.K. checked in the "countries" section of your pocket query setup form? Perhaps you could post a link to your query page, as the coordinates certainly seem correct.

 

EDIT: Moun10Bike beat me to the correct answer. I didn't notice the "W" and input the "E" just because I knew that!

Edited March 17, 2005 by Keystone Approver

[+geospyder]

The big E did it

 

Thanks...