Apologies for the delay in the Summary - been a bit busy and away for a week
:-) The original question is at the bottom.
I got a few replies, thanks very much. The site below is the one I was looking
for, or rather it points to NIMA which I used before.
On 29-Mar-99 at 14:59:57 dana@dtn.com wrote:
> http://www.ckdhr.com/dns-loc/finding.html
>
Other replies were:
Douglas Palmer <palmer@nyed.uscourts.gov> :
> Some useful info is at
> http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo
Litwin, Gary J <Gary.Litwin@PSS.Boeing.com> :
> I have had excellent success using the Microsoft terraserver at
> http://terraserver.microsoft.com/advfind.asp
> You can type in a location, then see an image of it.
> once you have pinpointed the area you want, these is a button for
> image info that provides the LAT and LONG.
(Sorry, but I had no luck with the above site; it was *so* slow - John).
Paul.Teasdel@dresdnerkb.com :
> Try http://cello.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/slamm/ip2ll/
Marco Greene <cmgreene@netcom.ca> :
> If memory serves me, I got it from one of the Sun URL's listed at
> www.stokely.com
(Can't remember but I don't think I found anything here - John).
Jochen Bern <bern@TI.Uni-Trier.DE> :
> Stupid question: Would you actually want to trust such a service,
> rather than looking up the U on a map, or having the tourist office
> look it up? I trust Plymouth to be *WAY* larger than a square angular
> minute, much less second.
>
A fair point; I didn't have a map handy though :-)
> I suggest, however, that you contact the University of Plymouth
> Amateur Radio Society (call sign G0UOP, homepage
> www.tech.plym.ac.uk/see/gouop.html). Every immobile amateur radio
> station is supposed to know its "QTH locator", which should be
> computed from original geographic coordinates at best, and can be
> converted to a 5'x2.5' range of geographic coordinates at worst.
>
> (According to their QSL card, the locator for G0UOP is IO70WJ,
> which translates to 405' to 4010' west, 50022'30" to 50025' north.
> See http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/vhfc/iaru.r1.vhfm.4e/3L.html ,
> especially appendix 3 thereof. ;-)
>
Well thanks for the info. I didn't know of any such Radio Soc within the Uni.
Thanks to all who replied.
Original question:
Some time ago I had a URL for a site that could give you the longitude and
latitude for sites on the planet. This could then be used for things such as
the DNS LOC records and xtraceroute.
I can't find the URL anymore - does anyone know of such a site?
John.
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