Thak you a lot, Lars. I have included your anwser in http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediatlas and in wikipedia.
I have found an interesting link too :
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn
Regards.
----- Original Message ----- TSent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Maps
Pedro M.V. wrote:
So, where can one find his/her city coordinates ???. I will try with spanish state geographical institute, region and so on and perhaps with a GPS user.
- Look at a good printed map or atlas, visit your library
- Use a GPS satellite navigator, if you have one
- Look at a website built by GPS users, e.g. http://geourl.org/ or http://www.findu.com/ or http://www.geocaching.com/
- Look for "Waypoint" files
- Google for the city name together with "latitude", "longitude", which gives hits like http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001769.html
- Look at a map website, e.g. http://www.mapquest.com/ or http://www.yahoo.com/
- Look at a wiki that already uses map coordinates, e.g. http://susning.nu/
No matter where you find coordinates, always look to see if they seem reasonable. There is a lot of incorrect or inaccurate data out there...
-- Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se/
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