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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] How do we want to define locales?
  • Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:50:13 -0500

Yep, this is what I was looking for. Anyway we can pull climate data
out of Lat/Long info?

Lawrence F. London, Jr. writes:
> Chad Knepp wrote:
>
> . what about topography? Hopefully we could find/make a
> > utility to translate ZIP/Postal code to Lat/Long or some such...
>
> http://www.hmssurprise.org/Resources/whereami.html
> Where Am I?
> How to determine latitude and longitude given a street address, city,
> state, province, territory, country or whatever.
>
> Below are a handful of sites for finding your coordinates from your street
> address or by use of interactive map generation:
>
> Maporama
> http://www.maporama.com
> Worldwide: The easiest source for latitude and longitude. Select a
> country, and enter the address as completely as you desire. The latitude
> and longitude information appears below the map both in degree, minutes,
> seconds (° ' ") and decimal degrees formats.
>
> Maptech MapServer
> http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/
> U.S. only: Another easy source for latitude and longitude. Enter the city
> and state or zip code. Click on the Go! button. Pan and zoom to
> find the desired location. The latitude and longitude reflecting the
> location of the cursor appears in degrees:minutes:seconds (° ' ") in
> the fields to the left of the map.
>
> Eagle Geocoder
> http://www.geocode.com/modules.php?name=TestDrive_Eagle
> U.S. only: Another easy source for latitude and longitude. Enter the U.S.
> address, as completely as you wish. Highlight either Address Info
> (the default) or Address & Map. Click on the request button. The latitude
> and longitude information appears both in decimal degrees and
> degrees:minutes:seconds formats.
>
> http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
> UK only: Latitude and longitude are displayed in the legend below the map.
> E.g.: ( N51:30:50 W0:06:37 WGS84) which can also be written
> 51°30'50" N, 0°6'37" W.
>
> http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer-tbl
> U.S. only: Enter the U.S. place name or ZIP code. Click on search. Click
> on map and use the pan and zoom features to zero in on your location.
>
> Or, click on the Tiger image above to go directly to the Tiger Map Server
> Browser. Good for finding a location based on given latitude and
> longitude values (decimal form).
> Confirm your Coordinates
> http://www.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp
>
> Worldwide: Enter a latitude and longitude pair to get a map with a marker
> at those coordinates. Remember, south and west are negative.
> To convert decimal form to degrees/minutes/seconds: A conversion script.
>
> Take the decimal part of the coordinate and multiply by 60. This
> gives you minutes.
> Take the decimal part of the minutes and multiply by 60, round to the
> nearest integer. This gives you seconds.
>
> Example: 50.802248 N x 1.111330 W
>
> 50.802248
>
> -> 50° + 60 x 0.802248 = 48.13488'
> -> 50° 48' + 60 x 0.13488 = 8.0928"
> -> 50° 48' 8"
>
> 1.111330
>
> -> 1° + 60 x 0.111330 = 6.6798'
> -> 1° 6' + 60 x 0.6798 = 40.788"
> -> 1° 6' 41"
>
> 50° 48' 8" N x 1° 6' 41" W ( Portsmouth Harbour, Portsmouth, GB, location
> of HMS Victory )
>
> Remember that one minute of latitude is one nautical mile ( one nautical
> mile = 6080 ft., one statute mile = 5280 ft. ). Minutes of
> longitude are less... smaller the further one gets from the equator.
> Adding decimal places doesn't help. Also, the various sites don't always
> agree, and my GPS receiver disagrees with them all.




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