What web site?

ian-and-penny · Post by **ian-and-penny** » 21 June 06 3:58 pm

Hi All,

Is there a website or similar that i can input an address and be able to work out the co-ordinates?

Cheers

Ian

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 21 June 06 4:29 pm

Hi Ian

Can you do this with Google Earth?

Andrew

GeoScrubers · Post by **GeoScrubers** » 21 June 06 4:35 pm

www.multimap.com allows you to do this

Unfortunately, the co-ords are in DMS or decimal degrees

Biggles Bear · Post by **Biggles Bear** » 22 June 06 8:54 am

GeoScrubers wrote:www.multimap.com allows you to do this
 Unfortunately, the co-ords are in DMS or decimal degrees

It's a pretty simple matter to get to degrees and decimal minutes. Just take the decimal portion of the degrees and multiply by 60 and bingo there's your deminal minutes.

For example -37.8265
 
0.8265 * 60 = 49.5900 minutes
 
So your latitude would be S 37Ã‚Â° 49.59'

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 22 June 06 4:49 pm

ian-and-penny wrote:Hi All,

Is there a website or similar that i can input an address and be able to work out the co-ordinates?

Cheers

Ian

what sort of address? street?

Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 22 June 06 7:01 pm

Depending on the location, the lands dept of NSW has a geocode lookup on their site.

IIRC, whereis.com.au could be used to do it, if you don't mind wading through the page source to find the coords. Not sure if that's still the case.

Good geocoding is big business, based on my research. There's not a free, widespread high volume fit-for-purpose geocoding facility in Australia as far as I know.

Hopefully google will be able to rectify this as they improve their local maps service (I suspect licensing the data might not be cost effective, or they might have done it already).

- Rog

team_diesel · Post by **team_diesel** » 22 June 06 7:23 pm

ian-and-penny wrote:Hi All,

Is there a website or similar that i can input an address and be able to work out the co-ordinates?

Cheers

Ian

Ian

try http://www.street-directory.com.au

After the map is drawn you can get the co-ordinates from the zoom numbers across the top of the map. Again they are DD.DDD but you can work it out from there.

On a different but similar topic http://www.street-directory.com.au maps are now available on GC.com cache pages.

Good luck

Peter

ian-and-penny · Post by **ian-and-penny** » 23 June 06 9:01 am

riblit wrote:
ian-and-penny wrote:Hi All,

Is there a website or similar that i can input an address and be able to work out the co-ordinates?

Cheers

Ian
what sort of address? street?

Hi Riblit,

I was hoping for one that I could put in Number, Street, Suburb & State.

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 23 June 06 5:10 pm

Nothing free that covers all of Australia. There are some real estate related companies that charge for the service and some services that cover portions of Australia that I know of.

team_diesel · Post by **team_diesel** » 23 June 06 9:11 pm

team_diesel wrote:
ian-and-penny wrote:Hi All,

Is there a website or similar that i can input an address and be able to work out the co-ordinates?

Cheers

Ian
Ian

try http://www.street-directory.com.au

After the map is drawn you can get the co-ordinates from the zoom numbers across the top of the map. Again they are DD.DDD but you can work it out from there.

OK - I posted that yesterday and it worked.

I go to the site today and they have changed it.

You can still get the co-ordinates (DD.DDDDD) but you need to use the email option above the right hand corner of the map.

Again - Good Luck

Peter

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